Цитаты из книги Things in Nature Merely Grow

The world, it seems to me, is governed by strong conviction and paltry imagination and meager understanding.

A mother can cook every meal with great care, but a mother’s care, like a point in geometry, is essential to the order of things, insubstantial in the scale of things.

Time flies, time is fleeting, but then there comes a moment when time, no longer nimble-footed, no longer winged, is for us to carry.