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.

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.

The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

I do value the respect I get from my contemporaries, but to have Oasis cover my song, to have Puff Daddy cover a song, to have Goldie come along to my gigs – that’s where my ego is at. To have my fellow musicians like what I do, that’s very cool.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.

Jesus didn’t die for us so we could pretend to be something we’re not.

I wear make-up, and it gets a little bit thicker every year.

I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

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

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.

Beauty without expression is boring.

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

Beauty and femininity are ageless and can’t be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won’t like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it’s based on femininity.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

When you are younger, you want to do everything, and you go haywire.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

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.

Religion is just mind control.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

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.

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.

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.

We’ve climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it’s a valley of peace.

All religions have been made by men.

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.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume.

I don’t care how many beauty treatments you have, I don’t care which bag you’re carrying – you have to have a dress.

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

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

Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we’re hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin‘ hymns is a great thing to do.

I’ve always appreciated a turn of phrase.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

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

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

Perhaps I can say that I am a bit astute, that I can adapt to circumstances, but it is also true that I am a bit naive. Yes, but the best summary, the one that comes more from the inside and I feel most true is this: I am a sinner whom the Lord has looked upon.

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

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Truly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the divine Christ. This note is unique and universal, and in it alone consists the Gospel.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don’t you’re gonna have me on your hands.