The land created me. I’m wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I’m more at home in the vacant lots.

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

Touring is very routine. You get to the city, you go to the hotel, you got to be at the hotel by a certain time – it’s very routine. I’m not a very structured person, so when I get some structure, it’s cool; it’s good for me.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

If you had your life to live over again, do it overseas.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn’t that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I’d already been translating French poetry, I’d been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Water’s never clumsy.

Hermits have no peer pressure.

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

When we go out to the country and just sit there, what we’re really doing is just switching off various kinds of alertness that we don’t have to use. When we do that, we are stopping being defensive. We are no longer shutting ourselves off from different types of experiences, we are welcoming them in.

Walking is man’s best medicine.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

I was definitely very much a country boy.

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

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

When I was two, a dragonfly flew near me. A man knocked it to the ground and trod on it. I remember crying because I’d caused the dragonfly to be killed.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half warm enough until Emerson came. I had read his essays, and felt sure that of all men he would best interpret the sayings of these noble mountains and trees. Nor was my faith weakened when I met him in Yosemite.

People are more aware now of cities and of different ways of life. I suppose the writing I do is a bit in the past, and I’m not sure it’s the kind of writing I would do if I were starting now.

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

I like to combine visits to more than one place when I go on my international tours in order to get more done. I’m from Ahmedabad where we have a saying, ‚Single-fare, double journey.‘

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.

I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

I make good music for long journeys.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

I’ve been here before and will come again, but I’m not going this trip through.

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

The extreme weakness of quantum gravitational effects now poses some philosophical problems; maybe nature is trying to tell us something new here: maybe we should not try to quantize gravity.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.

I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

The worst times were the years I was alone. The image to the public entering the courtroom was eight men, of a certain size, and then this little woman sitting to the side. That was not a good image for the public to see.

As a teenager, I went to Bali a lot, but it’s a long, long way from England. Which is why, when we bought Necker Island, we made it like a mini Bali.

Fifty years of isolating Cuba had failed to promote democracy, setting us back in Latin America. That’s why we restored diplomatic relations, opened the door to travel and commerce, and positioned ourselves to improve the lives of the Cuban people.

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

I read a lot when I’m travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.

I’ve grown accustomed to hotels and drastic climate change.

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it’s my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.

I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.