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

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

Each doctor makes a much, much more important job than I do, but at the end, nobody talks about him. We all know about it, but we don’t really think about it.

I’m tender on the inside.

Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.

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 believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

I’m living a dream I never want to wake up from.

You have to just accept your body. You may not love it all the way, but you just have to be comfortable with it, comfortable with knowing that that’s your body.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

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.

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.

To be admitted to Nature’s hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

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.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

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?

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.

For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly.

Do I worry about being in the public eye and raising kids? Yeah. Any situation you’re in, you’re gonna worry about raising kids. But it’s champagne problems, too. There are people who can’t feed their kids.

I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.

All art is but imitation of nature.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

To do nothing is also a good remedy.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I’m praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I’m grateful that I’m heard.

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

Touring is hard on the body.

The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

My mother made me truly appreciate women.

Living big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life’s ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be fond of them, too, for He made so many of them for us to enjoy.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

I’m thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn’t still be here if it weren’t for them.

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

I eat next to nothing.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

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

To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

Exercise is really important to me – it’s therapeutic. So if I’m ever feeling tense or stressed or like I’m about to have a meltdown, I’ll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls.

Precaution is better than cure.

I was fortunate and I was lucky that I had a couple of people in my life who cared about me. I had good, loving parents.

I’ve been very fortunate.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

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 don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.