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

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

When you’re outside, and everything is highland, it’s like nature has its own sound, and that’s one of my favorite sounds. I really loved sitting still silently outside, in a tree or in a bush, to just think.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.

The beauty of me being on stage is I have a voice.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

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

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and… I believe in miracles.

I’m an introvert… I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

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

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

True Scouts are the best friends of animals, for from living in the woods and wilds, and practising observation and tracking, they get to know more than other people about the ways and habits of birds and animals, and therefore they understand them and are more in sympathy with them.

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.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.

Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their hanging-gardens, villas, garden-houses, islands, parks, and preserves.

Last year we said, ‚Things can’t go on like this‘, and they didn’t, they got worse.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.

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?

Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

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

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.

As the poet said, ‚Only God can make a tree,‘ probably because it’s so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.

When we go out to the country and just sit there, what we’re really doing is just switching off various kinds of alertness that we don’t have to use. When we do that, we are stopping being defensive. We are no longer shutting ourselves off from different types of experiences, we are welcoming them in.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

I’m getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can’t stop lifting it, and I love that you know.

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.

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.

I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

Fashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what suits them, I give them options on how they can do that. It’s always sexy, and it’s always with the same result: making women look fantastic.

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.

Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them… may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.