Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

Good order is the foundation of all things.

I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function – that’s important, and fine, and I support it.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.

The earth laughs in flowers.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

I have rooms full of little dongly things and don’t want any more. Half the little dongly things I’ve got, I don’t even know what gizmo they’re for. More importantly, half the gizmos I’ve got, I don’t know where their little dongly thing is.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

He who can be, and therefore is, another’s, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

I love the sea.

Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many manifestations to our senses.

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

A company is a group organized to create a product or service, and it is only as good as its people and how excited they are about creating. I do want to recognize a ton of super-talented people. I just happen to be the face of the companies.

I believe that there are many herbs and many trees that are worth much in Europe for dyes and for medicines; but I do not know, and this causes me great sorrow. Arriving at this cape, I found the smell of the trees and flowers so delicious that it seemed the pleasantest thing in the world.

You should not build your customer service system on the premise that your organisation will never question the whims of your clients.

Nature abhors annihilation.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

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

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

Behold the child, by Nature’s kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

People expect your behavior to conform to known patterns and conventions. Your task as a strategist is to upset their expectations.

I write the paragraph, then I’m crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then I type it up because sometimes it’s almost illegible, and if I wait, I might not be able to read it the next day.

Nature does nothing in vain.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

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.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic – I use this metaphor a lot but I’ll use it again – it’s like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries – it’s just what happens with this being, now.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

The coniferous forests of the Yosemite Park, and of the Sierra in general, surpass all others of their kind in America, or indeed the world, not only in the size and beauty of the trees, but in the number of species assembled together, and the grandeur of the mountains they are growing on.

I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.

I’m definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I’m really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.

I’ll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I’ll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I’m not there, but I’ll always come back.

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

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

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.

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

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.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.