Nature is so clean, so pure, why do you run from it so? You run from truth as do roaches from the light. You say "Food and water are essential for life - attachment is both natural and human." Oh, you do well to avoid the truth. For it is emotional not bodily needs I denounce.
At this he thought: one cannot speak to pigs and fish, and silence is so difficult, especially for a talkative man. His eyes glistened for a moment, a tear? A blink and it was gone.