Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words (1982), Ch. 2 : My Spiritual Growing Up : My Steps Toward Inner Peace
Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance (2000, Harvest House Publishers)
“All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“It is useless to seek the soul of things beneath their surface, for their surface is their soul.”
Lorenz (1963) "Deterministic nonperiodic flow", in: J. Atmos. Sci. 20, 130–141. cited in: T.N. Palmer (2008) " Edward Norton Lorenz. 23 May 1917 −− 16 April 2008 http://rsbm.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/55/139.full.pdf" in: Biogr. Mems Fell. R. Soc. 2009 55, 139-155
On Literature, Revolution, Entropy and Other Matters (1923)
Context: The formal character of a living literature is the same as its inner character: it denies verities; it denies what everyone knows and what I have known until this moment. It departs from the canonical tracks, from the broad highway. … To literature today the plane surface of daily life is what the earth is to an airplane — a mere runway from which to take off, in order to rise aloft, from daily life to the realities of being, to philosophy, to the fantastic. Let yesterday's cart creak along the well-paved highways. The living have strength enough to cut away their yesterday.
“I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.”
“Is the surface of a planet really the right place for expanding technological civilization?”
"Is the surface of a planet really the right place for expanding technological civilization?"-Stewart Brand interview July 1975 http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Education/SpaceSettlement/CoEvolutionBook/Interview.HTML
