The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

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

You don’t need to buy expensive cosmetics; almost anything will do if you know how to apply it.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

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.

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, – till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

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.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

A women who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.

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

Man is by nature a political animal.

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

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

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.

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

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it’s a good place that we’re all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

One of the best ways to see tree flowers is to climb one of the tallest trees and to get into close, tingling touch with them, and then look broad.

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

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

All the world lies warm in one heart, yet the Sierra seems to get more light than other mountains. The weather is mostly sunshine embellished with magnificent storms, and nearly everything shines from base to summit – the rocks, streams, lakes, glaciers, irised falls, and the forests of silver fir and silver pine.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

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.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

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

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?