And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

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

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

I ain’t never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl’s complexion.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

A home without books is a body without soul.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

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

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

Why do I like to write short stories? Well, I certainly didn’t intend to. I was going to write a novel. And still! I still come up with ideas for novels. And I even start novels. But something happens to them. They break up. I look at what I really want to do with the material, and it never turns out to be a novel.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

Art’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Nothing can come of nothing.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

People think you have to go through something to write about it, and you absolutely do not. You can write about, like, a shoe. It’s a story.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.

Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

Where love is, there God is also.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many manifestations to our senses.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?

Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet – the only one in the whole Milky Way – with a century of transportation whoopee.

Every once in a while, I get mad. ‚The Lorax‘ came out of my being angry. The ecology books I’d read were dull… In ‚The Lorax,‘ I was out to attack what I think are evil things and let the chips fall where they might.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

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

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

I hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on behalf of girls around the world who struggle to go to school.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

The situation the Earth is in today has been created by unmindful production and unmindful consumption. We consume to forget our worries and our anxieties. Tranquilising ourselves with over-consumption is not the way.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies – it is the first law of nature.

Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don’t know why this one is different, but it is. You don’t know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can’t stop thinking about it.

A word after a word after a word is power.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I’ve met.

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.

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.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

There’s hope for everyone. That’s what makes the world go round.