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

The environment is everything that isn’t me.

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Hmm, on my downtime, I take a shower or listen to the Bible on tape.

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

My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all.

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don’t know what’s going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don’t know at all what you’re going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you’re a kid and you’re reading stories.

Music, for me, is vital. Punjabi, Bollywood, Sufi, RnB… I listen to it all. When I’m not listening to music, you will find me chatting with friends. Off the field, I just let my instincts take over. I certainly don’t think about batting, or which bowlers I’m going to face.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

I’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‚Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.‘

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

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

Today, we have private airline companies, but if you take a look at a Boeing plane next time you travel, you’ll see that you are basically taking a ride on a modified bomber.

Of all the mountain ranges I have climbed, I like the Sierra Nevada the best.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

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

There’s no substitute for the practice of meditation.

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

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

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 bluebird carries the sky on his back.

I’m one of the most adaptable guys I know in as much as travelling is my favourite thing to do in life. With every place I go, I try to stay there long enough to do it justice, long enough so that I can at least imagine what it would be like to live there. Once I imagine that, then it’s OK for me to return home.

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

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.

But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.

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

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

I love being active.

A queer fellow and a jolly fellow is the grasshopper. Up the mountains he comes on excursions, how high I don’t know, but at least as far and high as Yosemite tourists.

I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It’s more fun to come to Paris.

My grandfather lived to be late 90s on one side and on the other side, 70s or something. And my father died young, at 63. But he didn’t take very good care of himself.

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

Nature never breaks her own laws.

My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

I have little bones.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

Joe Frazier got hit more than me – and he doesn’t have Parkinson’s.

Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their hanging-gardens, villas, garden-houses, islands, parks, and preserves.

Mortality is very different when you’re 20 to when you’re 50.

When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

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.

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

If you had to buy a new plane every time you flew somewhere, it would be incredibly expensive.

Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.

On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.

It is easier to feel than to realize, or in any way explain, Yosemite grandeur. The magnitudes of the rocks and trees and streams are so delicately harmonized, they are mostly hidden.