p. 110

The room of love is another world. You go there wearing no watch, watching no clock. It is the world without end, so small that two people can hold it in their arms, and yet it is bigger than worlds on worlds, for it contains the longing of all things to be together, and to be at rest together. You come together at a days end, weary and sore, and there you are where giving and taking are the same, and you live a little while entirely in a gift. The words have all been said, all permissions given, and you are free in the place that is the two of you together. What could be more heavenly than to have desire and satisfaction in the same room?
If you want to know why even in telling of trouble and sorrow I am giving thanks, this is why.
-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

p.20

“[o]ur understanding of and appreciation of human creativity are impoverished if we fail to see it as continuous with creativity in nature”.
-Stan Godlovitch, 1999, Creativity in Nature