“Viewed simply as a life-support system, the earth is an environment.”

A place is a piece of the whole environment that has been claimed by feelings.

It is the sounds and smells and sights of places which haunt us and against which we often measure our present.

The catalyst that converts any physical location – any environment if you will – into a place, is the process of experiencing deeply.

We are homesick for places, we are reminded of places.

Viewed as a resource that sustains our humanity, the earth is a collection of places.

It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.

I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.

The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.

I don’t respond to it publicly, because a lot of things are put out there simply for the attention. Things that are meaningful, you don’t need to talk about.

Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.

One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.

Then we don’t have to celebrate it or let anybody know about it, simply let the mind have firm confidence in the goodness and keep going like this.

These days people don’t search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living.