“The human voice conspires to desecrate everything on Earth.”

1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)

The Book of Delusions (1936)

Hymn in the Vale of Chamouni.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Source: Snow Falling on Cedars

"The Holy Dimension", p. 331
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997)

The I in the Triangle, speech held at a bookstore in Santa Cruz, California (1990)

Bodhi Tree lecture (1999)
Context: The Goddess religion asserts that the earth is alive, and that everything on the earth is part of a living being. We believe that you can celebrate life in many different images and forms, that life moves in cycles of birth and growth and death and rebirth, and that the same spirit moves through nature, through the cycles of the seasons, through the birth and growth and death of plants and animals, and through our lives as human beings. There is a multiplicity of images that you can draw upon for understanding and power, but the reason we focus on the goddess is partly to counterbalance the 5,000 years worth of focus on male holy images, and partly to affirm that bringing life into the world is sacred. Our goal is not to get out of the world or to get out of life, but to integrate it, to celebrate it, to embrace it fully, and to embrace all the different cycles within it