Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

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

When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

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

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.

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That’s the way the mind of man operates.

I’ve never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

When you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.

Traveling around the world and preaching for over 70 years did not give much time for reflection.

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

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don’t know what’s going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don’t know at all what you’re going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you’re a kid and you’re reading stories.

My home is in Heaven. I’m just traveling through this world.

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

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.

I would like to go back to Wales. I’m obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

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.

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

Today, we have private airline companies, but if you take a look at a Boeing plane next time you travel, you’ll see that you are basically taking a ride on a modified bomber.

Back in Oakland, we have a lot of food in the locker room, but on the road, it’s mostly just fruit. So we have to prepare differently. But really, once you get to the gym, everything on the road is pretty much the same.

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.

I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

We travel often to Asia, Africa, Europe, where they were born.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

Live dangerously and you live right.

The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

Nature hates calculators.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

What I enjoy most is doing something I’ve never done before.

Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.

London is a roost for every bird.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

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

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

I remember I was flying home to Los Angeles one day. I was talking to the woman next to me and the flight attendant tried to tell me I was sitting next to somebody that I should know. I didn’t recognize her but it ended up being Beyonce’s sister, Solange Knowles.

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

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

I make good music for long journeys.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

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

It’s useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic – I use this metaphor a lot but I’ll use it again – it’s like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries – it’s just what happens with this being, now.

No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment.

There’s love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we’re alone in our heads.

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

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

I had a project for my life which involved 10 years of wandering, then some years of medical studies and, if any time was left, the great adventure of physics.

I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you’ve got people just streaming up the mountain – well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.

Being on tour is like being in limbo. It’s like going from nowhere to nowhere.