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

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline… because you need to be alone to find out anything.

If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters – the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site.

I didn’t want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn’t like it. I always wanted to do other things.

The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

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

There’s no reality except the one contained within us. That’s why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

We’re one of the only animals in the world that don’t really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals, and we must respect our fellow animals.

Women are the engine driving the growth in California’s economy. Women make California’s economy unique.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

No driver is perfect.

Why am I a star? It can’t be because of looks.

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.

Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I’ll stop the whole production: ‚Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody.‘

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.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

There can never be any stop to learn about different cultures by travelling to different places. And whatever comes your way, continue the healthy eating habits.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

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.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

They’ll forget all the rubbish when I’ve gone, and they’ll remember the football. If only one person thinks I’m the best player in the world, that’s good enough for me.

Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

I’d always somehow felt slightly as if I’d been born in the wrong country.

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

If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.

I’m crepuscular.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

I don’t know what ‚normal‘ means, anyway.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

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

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered… to feel she is the most important thing in someone’s world. Only a man can paint this picture.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

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.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that’s left for you or to make one of your own.

It feels good to have your work respected again.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.