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.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
"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.
"I have been Foolish and Deluded," said he, "and I am a Bear of No Brain at All."
"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.