They march, obscure; for Venus kindly shrouds
With mists their persons, and involves in clouds,
That, thus unseen, their passage none might stay,
Or force to tell the causes of their way.

“Neither the animals nor I believe in the city.”

“These mind things are very strong; in some, so strong as to blot out the external things completely.”

“Character was crumbling, and the law of the fang was too close to us.
One thing had impressed us deeply on this little voyage: the great world dropped away very quickly.”

“When all these creatures are merged with the truth, they know not that they are merged with the truth.”

"The mixing of symbols from different systems does not seem to make any difference. You use the symbols that you find appropriate."

“The pattern of the technique of the trip had by now established itself almost as a habit with us; collecting, running to a new station, collecting again. The water was intensely blue on this run, and the fish were very many.”

“The conspicuous absence of dominant axes precludes the creation of panoramic views. Dominant axes penetrate artificial, geometric patterns. Without a focal point, views are alternately seen and hidden. The garden emphasizes natural metaphors and microcosms.”

"A revered nature is a separated nature. Like the deities that human beings create in their imagination and worship in temples, this separated nature becomes a reified and contrived phenomenon that is set apart from the human world, even as human beings genuflect before it."

“In the six weeks of our association we observed it, at first mechanically and then, as its living reactions became more and more apparent, psychologically. And we determined one thing to our satisfaction. When and if these ghoulish little motors learn to reproduce themselves the human species is doomed.”

"Through the lacings of the leaves, the great sun seemed a flying shuttle weaving the unwearied verdure. Oh, busy weaver! unseen weaver! — pause! — one word! — whither flows the fabric?"