I believe that there are many herbs and many trees that are worth much in Europe for dyes and for medicines; but I do not know, and this causes me great sorrow. Arriving at this cape, I found the smell of the trees and flowers so delicious that it seemed the pleasantest thing in the world.

Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

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

When you draw or paint a tree, you do not imitate the tree; you do not copy it exactly as it is, which would be mere photography. To be free to paint a tree or a flower or a sunset, you have to feel what it conveys to you: the significance, the meaning of it.

When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.

Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.

Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.

You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

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

I have no hostility to nature, but a child’s love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

When we understand string theory, we will know how the universe began. It won’t have much effect on how we live, but it is important to understand where we come from and what we can expect to find as we explore.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There’s a lot of places left to go.

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.

We’re one of the only animals in the world that don’t really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals, and we must respect our fellow animals.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren’t very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

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.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.

Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

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

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Nature hates calculators.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‚third force,‘ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.

My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed – chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones.

In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.

I want to give people a taste of the Caribbean, and show them the fun side of me.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

Many readers fail to realize this, but ‚The Color Purple‘ is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one’s original God: the earth and nature.

I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.

If you are in the country, you should notice landmarks – that is, objects which help you to find your way or prevent you getting lost, such as distant hills, church towers, and nearer objects, such as peculiar buildings, trees, gates, rocks, etc.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through.

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.

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came.

In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can’t stand it.

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

I don’t believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn’t say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It’s an ongoing process.

Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.