Walter

“The hard and mighty lie beneath the ground
While the tender and weak dance on the breeze above.”
― Lao Tzu

“The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others.”
― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

“The secret of the mountain is that the mountains simply exist, as I do myself: the mountains exist simply, which I do not. The mountains have no "meaning," they are meaning; the mountains are. The sun is round. I ring with life, and the mountains ring, and when I can hear it, there is a ringing that we share. I understand all this, not in my mind but in my heart, knowing how meaningless it is to try to capture what cannot be expressed, knowing that mere words will remain when I read it all again, another day.”
― Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard

“We have outsmarted ourselves, like greedy monkeys, and now we are full of dread.”
― Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard