I have no hostility to nature, but a child’s love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

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.

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it’s almost impossible to stamp out.

There’s love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we’re alone in our heads.

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren’t very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods.

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

I’ve been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she’ll kill me.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

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.

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

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

There is no such thing as a lovers‘ oath.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

Pay attention, don’t let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.

Water’s never clumsy.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

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 good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

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.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we’ll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

All you need is love.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

We do not judge the people we love.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

I am a very emotional guy. What I love, I do with all I have.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

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

It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

To be loved is very demoralizing.