No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.

If you’re a surfer, you just want to surf. You don’t know if anyone’s going to see you, and you don’t really care if they see you. You just live for that feeling.

When you’re outside, and everything is highland, it’s like nature has its own sound, and that’s one of my favorite sounds. I really loved sitting still silently outside, in a tree or in a bush, to just think.

We can’t allow the world’s worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world’s worst weapons.

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don’t attack each other. Free nations don’t develop weapons of mass destruction.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

What is a farm but a mute gospel?

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

For greed all nature is too little.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.

White people just don’t want their slaves to be free. That’s the whole thing.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don’t see what goes on underground – as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don’t see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Nature is not human hearted.

I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I’m blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

The brain is wider than the sky.

The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted. The whole continent was a garden, and from the beginning, it seemed to be favored above all the other wild parks and gardens of the globe.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it’s a disaster that we have moved so far from nature.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn’t have to define you. It doesn’t have to limit you.

Freedom without limits is just a word.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

Probably because I’m from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don’t get too excited with big things.

Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.