In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

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.

As soon as I arrived in the Indies, in the first island which I found, I took some of the natives by force, in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts. And so it was that they soon understood us, and we them, either by speech or by signs, and they have been very serviceable.

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.

Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment – a means to an end.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

Never find fault with the absent.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

A great hallmark of mental wellness is the ability to be in the present moment, fully and with no thoughts of being elsewhere.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‚Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

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.

The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

Nature abhors annihilation.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

My head’s never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch ‚CSI‘ or ‚Law & Order,‘ where I have to follow the crime. If I can’t turn my head off during that, I know I’ve really got a problem.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach you how to be attentive. If any system teaches you how to be attentive, then you are attentive to the system, and that is not attention.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ‚the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.‘ The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ‚Artist.‘

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That’s the way the mind of man operates.

Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.

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

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

You don’t always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that’s plenty.

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.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.

It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

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

Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.