Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

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.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

I think it’s very important to cry in the shower and not in front of them. They need to know that everything’s going to be all right, even when you’re not sure it is.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

It’s never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

When I was two, a dragonfly flew near me. A man knocked it to the ground and trod on it. I remember crying because I’d caused the dragonfly to be killed.

The target of preventive war must have several characteristics. It must be virtually defenceless; it must be important enough to be worth the trouble; it must be possible to portray it as the ultimate evil and an imminent threat to our survival.

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‚Not Me,‘ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‚Nature.‘

While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort, we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States – that is, prosperity.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

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.

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.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

There are people out there who hate me and who say I’m arrogant, vain, and whatever. That’s all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

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.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

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

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

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.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

I have no definite talent or trade, and how I stay alive is largely a matter of magic.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

When my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains. I’ve turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fact that I’m still a slave, only my price tag is higher.

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.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

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

Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.