"Nature is my temple; trees are my priests; birds, my rabbis; rains, my imams! Nature is my only true and eternal religion."

“You've got to rattle your cage door. You've got to let them know that you're in there, and that you want out. Make noise. Cause trouble. You may not win right away, but you'll sure have a lot more fun.”

“I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.”

“Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but demonic.”

“The history of man is dominated by, and reflects, the amount of available energy”

Source : Frederick Soddy (1920). “Science and Life: Aberdeen Addresses”

“Things are always worse in the steady watches of the night.”

“Light reveals righteousness, and it also reveals sin.”

“In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.”

“The sun is a huntress young, The sun is a red, red joy, The sun is an Indian girl, Of the tribe of the Illinois. The sun is a smouldering fire, That creeps through the high gray plain, And leaves not a bush of cloud To blossom with flowers of rain. The sun is a wounded deer, That treads pale grass in the skies, Shaking his golden horns, Flashing his baleful eyes. The sun is an eagle old, There in the windless west. Atop of the spirit-cliffs He builds him a crimson nest.”

Source : Vachel Lindsay (1992). “The Congo and Other Poems”, p.39, Courier Corporation