Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.

One of the best ways to see tree flowers is to climb one of the tallest trees and to get into close, tingling touch with them, and then look broad.

First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her – for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.

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.

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.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‚Not Me,‘ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‚Nature.‘

Little by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

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.

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.

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.

Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them… may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.

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

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

Nature is not human hearted.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

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

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

I mean, Hawaii is beautiful, but the world is full of beautiful places.

You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also… your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.

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

All the world lies warm in one heart, yet the Sierra seems to get more light than other mountains. The weather is mostly sunshine embellished with magnificent storms, and nearly everything shines from base to summit – the rocks, streams, lakes, glaciers, irised falls, and the forests of silver fir and silver pine.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain – a magic wand in Nature’s hand – every devout mountaineer knows its power; but the marvelous beauty value of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what poet has sung this?

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

The first rap CD that I had, it was so different for me. The energy, the wordplay, all that caught my attention, and I liked it.

Today we say that the law of relativity is supposed to be true at all energies, but someday somebody may come along and say how stupid we were.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

Nature abhors annihilation.

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.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.

Energy begets energy.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.

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

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

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

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

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

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans – an avian flu pandemic.

I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God’s mountains.

I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn’t feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It’s a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

It’s very fun to be the hunter of the sounds. The hunter of the right energy. And it’s not really about if every sound is correct; it’s more the energy – if it hits you in some way, it doesn’t really matter to me if it’s not perfect. I’m still very excited while hunting for songs.

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

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

The environment is everything that isn’t me.