Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

Gardening is not a rational act.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

Water’s never clumsy.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

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.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

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.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

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.

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.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

The difficulty with this conversation is that it’s very different from most of the ones I’ve had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.

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.

Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.

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

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

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.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

If I see a mountain, I just pick up and hike it.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

I’m crepuscular.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

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.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

I’m definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I’m really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

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

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

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

We never look deeply into the quality of a tree; we never really touch it, feel its solidity, its rough bark, and hear the sound that is part of the tree. Not the sound of wind through the leaves, not the breeze of a morning that flutters the leaves, but its own sound, the sound of the trunk and the silent sound of the roots.

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.

I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. It involves subtle trickery, beautiful tightropes of logic on which one has to walk in order not to make a mistake in predicting what will happen. The quantum mechanical and the relativity ideas are examples of this.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.

The human animal originally came from out-of-doors. When spring begins to move in his bones, he just must get out again. Moreover, as civilization, cement pavements, office buildings, radios have overwhelmed us, the need for regeneration has increased, and the impulses are even stronger.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

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.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.