Quotes About Connection

You evolve--cosmically and geologically. You lose each other and find each other again. Every day.

Indiana and Illinois, the two states conjoined like Siamese twins.

Divinity, not machines. Standing among the sunflowers, I craved divinity.

When put to it, I can be an alright conversationalist. But I find openings are always tricky.

One gets the impression that when this house is full there's probably nothing here but love and a hell of a racket.

What if I forget her voice?' Sara said. 'You won't,' I said. 'You sound just like her.

You could travel mile after empty mile seeing nobody, nothing—just the rugged Meseta—and then happen upon an ancient village of a hundred homes, all conjoined and crowded together, enjambed and encircling a church, a castle, each village with its Franco-era frontón, linked, for better or worse, in prayer, in drink, in song. I

Eu as prefera sa beau vin facut de omul care mi-l serveste, fiindca beau persoana insasi. Ma impregnez de fiinta ei, de iubirea ei.

There's immeasurable glory in riding a tractor. You start by taking a lap around the fields, smelling the aroma, admiring the colors, day after day, until one morning everything smells ready, as if it's opened and unfurled, and you ask the wheat, 'Is it time?' And the wheat says, 'Yes, friend, it's time.' And then you know to begin the harvest.

He'd taught him how to listen to the earth, how to speak to the animals, how to love and look after your kind with ferocity.

Talk of you or me,' he told her, 'but never of 'us.

Marriage is the unsuccessful attempt to make something lasting out of an incident...

And, you know, being able to wear the stars and stripes, when you step up on one of the blocks or, you know, when you step off of an airplane or when you hear the national anthem play, you know, it's one of the greatest feelings in the world because you know that there are people at home who are supporting you and watching you.

Looking at the world from other species' points of view is a cure for the disease of human self-importance.

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.

The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture.

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

Shake the hand that feeds you.

Performing makes me feel alive

Falling in love is more than infatuation. It is the need to feel whole, to feel safe, to be healed, to join together with someone, heart and soul.

When you're in love, there's nothing that can embarrass or surprise you.

We are not strangers. It's a lack of trust that keeps us separated.

What's real and what's not? People we meet in books--Holden Caulfield, Captain Ahab, Huckleberry Finn, Harry Potter, Bilbo and Gandalf and Frodo-- can become more memorable, and more important to us than people with birth certificates and drivers' licenses. Characters spawned in an author's imagination find a home inside us. They make our lives richer. They become our best friends. They never disappoint. And they never die.