Some of his own closeness to nature, his great love for human beings, was passed on by Whitman to all of us who knew and loved him.

I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings.

Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.

There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings.