Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

I don’t watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched ‚The King’s Speech‘ on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

I like the idea of making a big, fun, adventure type of movie.

It’s crazy how fast you get out of shape if you miss a couple days of action.

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.

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.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

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

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

Mind over mattress.

In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.

Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.

Everything is an open book. I don’t speak on other people’s hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I’m going to talk about it. That’s what my fan base appreciates the most. I’m universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

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.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

That summer after the draft was probably the most fun I’ve ever had, because all I had to do every day was wake up and go work out for four or five hours. I got to play some golf, which I love to do, too, and then got to hang out with my family.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

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.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.

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.

I drink a lot of coconut water. It balances out all the other toxic stuff I put into my body.

Health consists with temperance alone.

Touring is hard on the body.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

I’ve been to those places where it’s ‚poor, pitiful me.‘

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.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you’re working on.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you’re listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.

There’s no substitute for the practice of meditation.

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one’s gaze.

Going home helps the content.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.

Paris is always a good idea.

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

I sing and play the guitar, and I’m a walking, talking bacterial infection.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.