In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

It’s not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

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

As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents – electric wave motion – will have the sway.

Light is the greatest disinfectant in nature and also in organizations.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Remember a few years ago when Congress declared that the sauce on a slice of pizza should count as a vegetable in school lunches? You don’t have to be a nutritionist to know that this doesn’t make much sense.

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.

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.

I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.

Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don’t see what goes on underground – as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don’t see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

I love being active.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine’s not so great.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.

You know, I live a monastic lifestyle. No, I do. I do live in extremes, basically. I go back and forth. Once every six months, I’ll have a day where I eat more chocolate than has ever been consumed by a human being.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment.

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.

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.

I am very strict about what I eat. I do not consume anything that my body does not require. It takes a lot of sacrifice and discipline. It wasn’t easy before but now its second nature for me.

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

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.

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.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

How young can you die of old age?

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.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

I love Velveeta cheese.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

Maybe I don’t have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.

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.

Gardening is not a rational act.

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don’t need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

I have allergies, and I’ve had my share of nosebleeds, but that’s usually related to pollen.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

I try to encourage all my teammates, and I sure hope that some day all athletes – my kids, high school kids – get the same level of care I get. Because you can play for a long period of time without having knee replacements, without having all the major head trauma that people are dealing with.

If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.

Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

I know I have to run 20 more minutes if I eat ice cream. Basically, I eat everything, but I just do more training.

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