“Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?”

“and even the trees we walked
under
seemed
less than
trees
and more like everything
else.”

“The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial; it was something very personal to me… The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn't make it easy.”

“Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me:
There lie they, and here lie we
Under the spreading chestnut tree.”

“Under the spreading chestnut tree
I sold you and you sold me”

“Why may not a goose say thus: "All the parts of the universe I have an interest in: the earth serves me to walk upon, the sun to light me; the stars have their influence upon me; I have such an advantage by the winds and such by the waters; there is nothing that yon heavenly roof looks upon so favourably as me. I am the darling of Nature! Is it not man that keeps and serves me?"”

“I was once walking through the forest alone. A tree fell right in front of me, and I didn't hear a thing.”

“Those that are hunted
Know this as their life,
Their reward: to walk
Under such trees in full knowledge
Of what is in glory above them,
And to feel no fear.”

“But I love your feet
only because they walked
upon the earth and upon
the wind and upon the waters,
until they found me.”

“Descend, descend, Urania, speak
To men in their own tongue!
Leave not the breaking heart to break
Because thine own is strong.
This is the law, in dream and deed,
That heaven must walk on earth!
O, shine upon the humble creed
That holds the heavenly birth.”