What lingers from the parent's individual past unresolved or incomplete often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

I often get letters quite frequently from people who say how they like the programmes a lot but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature.

It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department.

I think that in today's world by nature we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

Nature is often hidden sometimes overcome seldom extinguished.

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.

People often complain that music is too ambiguous that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear whereas everyone understands words. With me it is exactly the opposite and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.

Music is emotional and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

Music exalts each joy allays each grief expels diseases softens every pain subdues the rage of poison and the plague.

Every so often I feel I should graduate to classical music properly. But the truth is I'm more likely to listen to rock music.

With music you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you and you don't know why.

One often makes music to supplement one's world.

Life is like music it must be composed by ear feeling and instinct not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases though not often.