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.

My production and songwriting and the environment around those vocals are not inspired by R&B at all.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

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 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.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

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.

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

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

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

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.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

I love the sea.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

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

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.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

True Scouts are the best friends of animals, for from living in the woods and wilds, and practising observation and tracking, they get to know more than other people about the ways and habits of birds and animals, and therefore they understand them and are more in sympathy with them.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

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

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

In most mills, only the best portions of the best trees are used, while the ruins are left on the ground to feed great fires which kill much of what is left of the less desirable timber, together with the seedlings on which the permanence of the forest depends.

Walking is man’s best medicine.

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

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

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology, obviously, but environment, too. Even financial structures can affect the actual content of a song. The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

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.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

I do think we’re an endangered species. But that we do have a plan to save the rainforest.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

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

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

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.

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

This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

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?