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

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

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

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

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it’s a disaster that we have moved so far from nature.

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.

We’ve climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it’s a valley of peace.

Nature hates calculators.

I tend not to like an awful lot of what is going out under my name now because it is just all product. Who needs it?

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Regarded zoologically, man is today an almost isolated figure in nature. In his cradle, he was less isolated.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

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!

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

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.

I couldn’t take pictures of green rolling hills.

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 main thing that’s missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics.

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God’s mountains.

I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‚escape of energy,‘ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

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

My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.

I’m crepuscular.

Today we say that the law of relativity is supposed to be true at all energies, but someday somebody may come along and say how stupid we were.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

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

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

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.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I’ve never even been to the ‚hood. Not that there’s anything wrong with the ‚hood.

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

I do believe in the energy and the productivity of the American business world.

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.

Little by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

People from all over the world come to London wanting to make their own mark on it, and they add to the energy and vitality of the capital. It’s got a bit busier since the ’60s, but the more the merrier!

I can’t say this enough – the food that you put into your bodies can actually help you get better grades. And it can also affect your performance in sports and other activities too. You see, when you give your body the best possible fuel, you have more energy, you’re stronger, you think more quickly.

There’s something missing in the music industry today… and it’s music. Songs you hear don’t last, it’s just product fed to you by the industry.

I suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things, they had to give place to better cattle, though the change might have been made without barbarous wickedness.

During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half warm enough until Emerson came. I had read his essays, and felt sure that of all men he would best interpret the sayings of these noble mountains and trees. Nor was my faith weakened when I met him in Yosemite.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.