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

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

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

If you’re in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.

To start with, I love New York… It’s a little bit of the whole world… In New York, the whole world comes to you.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

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.

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.

It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

Any East Coast road trip we have is very exciting, just being on the road, taking it all in.

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.

One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.

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

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week, I began to have a sense of the appeal of the country and its people – along with despair about its future.

Man is by nature a political animal.

I hope to play until I’m, like, 38 or something, and that’s a lot of years in the game and a lot of travel and a lot of sacrifice on my family’s part.

It’s useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

I am two with nature.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

I always tell people that if I move anywhere it would be Toronto.

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.

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

Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.

People from all over the world come to London wanting to make their own mark on it, and they add to the energy and vitality of the capital. It’s got a bit busier since the ’60s, but the more the merrier!

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.

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.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

I shouldn’t be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.

If you had your life to live over again, do it overseas.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

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.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

It’s not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.

When I’m doing a book tour in the States, I’ll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain hotel, and I don’t know where I am right away. I’ll go to the window, and it doesn’t help there either, especially if you’re in an anonymous strip and it’s the usual Victoria’s Secret, Gap, Chili’s, Applebee’s.

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

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.

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came.

There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I’d listen to Italian music.

I like to combine visits to more than one place when I go on my international tours in order to get more done. I’m from Ahmedabad where we have a saying, ‚Single-fare, double journey.‘

The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

I still consider myself a little, fat kid from Hawaii.

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