A queer fellow and a jolly fellow is the grasshopper. Up the mountains he comes on excursions, how high I don’t know, but at least as far and high as Yosemite tourists.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.

I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.

Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

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

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.

I believe that there are many herbs and many trees that are worth much in Europe for dyes and for medicines; but I do not know, and this causes me great sorrow. Arriving at this cape, I found the smell of the trees and flowers so delicious that it seemed the pleasantest thing in the world.

Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

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

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all.

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist.

Sevier County is a great area.

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

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

On all the peaks lies peace.

For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. What I want to do is go down there, but still stay sane.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

More understand China, then more people will have interest in China and more people will come to China to visit us because I am a tourist ambassador.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

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

Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn’t even nothing or once.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it’s been something I’ve been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it’s something I hope to continue because it’s interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

When we understand string theory, we will know how the universe began. It won’t have much effect on how we live, but it is important to understand where we come from and what we can expect to find as we explore.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

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

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

Gardening is not a rational act.

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

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

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

Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.

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.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

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.

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.