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.

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

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

Nature hates calculators.

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.

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

My earliest realization of the stir of national life was the torch parade in the Garfield campaign. On that occasion, I was not only allowed out that night, but I saw the lamps being filled and lighted.

When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band – or at least in a Pixies cover band.

Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.

I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.

You can stroke people with words.

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.

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

I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.

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.

Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

Little by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

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

I’ll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I’ll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I’m not there, but I’ll always come back.

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

My friends and I had fun together, but I was more reserved, not at all the life of the party. I would just be the quiet one in the room.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.

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

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

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.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

I feel connected to my generation through the music, but I also fear for us. We’re in a very self-destructive state where we’re addicted to outside opinions and we all feel like we have fans.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

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

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

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

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

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.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

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.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

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?

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.