Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.
"If there's a buzzing-noise, somebody's making a buzzing-noise, and the only reason for making a buzzing-noise that I know of is because you're a bee." And then he got up, and said: "And the only reason for making honey is so I can eat it." So he began to climb the tree.
"It's a little Anxious," he said to himself, "to be a Very Small Animal Entirely Surrounded by Water."
How sweet to be a cloudFloating in the blue.
"I shouldn't be surprised if it hailed a good deal tomorrow", Eeyore was saying. "Blizzards and what-not. Being fine today doesn't mean anything. It has no sig - what's that word? Well, it has none of that. It's just a small piece of weather."
If I plant a honeycomb outside my house, then it will grow up into a beehive.
We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
Innumerable twinkling of the waves of the sea.