Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

I think my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, ‚Do you really, really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what’s the world going to be like for your great-grandchildren?‘

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

Men don’t care what’s on TV. They only care what else is on TV.

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.

Books are sharks… because sharks have been around for a very long time. There were sharks before there were dinosaurs, and the reason sharks are still in the ocean is that nothing is better at being a shark than a shark.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

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

Men exist for the sake of one another.

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

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

Conversion is a change of masters. Will we not do as much for our new master, the Lord Jesus, as we did once for our old tyrant lusts?

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

All things are only transitory.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

There are many men who are forgotten, who are despised, and who are trampled on by their fellows, but there never was a man who was so despised as the everlasting God has been!

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

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

Things ain’t what they used to be and never were.

We’re running the company to serve more people.

All the world lies warm in one heart, yet the Sierra seems to get more light than other mountains. The weather is mostly sunshine embellished with magnificent storms, and nearly everything shines from base to summit – the rocks, streams, lakes, glaciers, irised falls, and the forests of silver fir and silver pine.

When you think of the exponential speed and scale of expansion of social media or a service, you have to believe that it is equally possible to rapidly transform the lives of those who have long stood on the margins of hope.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

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

The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain – a magic wand in Nature’s hand – every devout mountaineer knows its power; but the marvelous beauty value of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what poet has sung this?

Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

We Americans think, in every country in transition, there’s a Thomas Jefferson hiding behind some rock or a James Madison beyond one sand dune.

I’m not looking to freak people out – eating rodents or bugs. I don’t do that anymore.

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that’s the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don’t understand.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

There’s a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.

When you’re outside, and everything is highland, it’s like nature has its own sound, and that’s one of my favorite sounds. I really loved sitting still silently outside, in a tree or in a bush, to just think.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

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?

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

Is evolution a theory, a system, or an hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforward if they are to be thinkable and true.