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

I’m not looking to exclude people, I’m looking to include them.

‚O sleep, O gentle sleep,‘ I thought gratefully, ‚Nature’s soft nurse!‘

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.

Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it’s so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them.

I love imperfections.

The extreme weakness of quantum gravitational effects now poses some philosophical problems; maybe nature is trying to tell us something new here: maybe we should not try to quantize gravity.

Nature is not human hearted.

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

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.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer’s no. That’s not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim American kid believing that he or she could be president?

I mean, Hawaii is beautiful, but the world is full of beautiful places.

I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I’m walking down the street.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

We never look deeply into the quality of a tree; we never really touch it, feel its solidity, its rough bark, and hear the sound that is part of the tree. Not the sound of wind through the leaves, not the breeze of a morning that flutters the leaves, but its own sound, the sound of the trunk and the silent sound of the roots.

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

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.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

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

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

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

It is easier to feel than to realize, or in any way explain, Yosemite grandeur. The magnitudes of the rocks and trees and streams are so delicately harmonized, they are mostly hidden.

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

Nature abhors annihilation.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.

I don’t believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn’t say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It’s an ongoing process.

Here in America, we don’t give in to our fears. We don’t build up walls to keep people out.

I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

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

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

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.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

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

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

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

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one’s gaze.

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

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.

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.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Regarded zoologically, man is today an almost isolated figure in nature. In his cradle, he was less isolated.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

I was definitely very much a country boy.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.