No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

Nature hates calculators.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren’t very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods.

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.

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

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

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.

I’ll beat him so bad he’ll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

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

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.

The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted. The whole continent was a garden, and from the beginning, it seemed to be favored above all the other wild parks and gardens of the globe.

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them… may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.

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

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

I’m crepuscular.

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

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

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.

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

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

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.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

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.

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.

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

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

They say cats have nine lives. I’ve had 12 already and I don’t know how many more I’ll have.

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.

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

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

Nature abhors annihilation.

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

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

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

The dispersal of juniper seeds is effected by the plum and cherry plan of hiring birds at the cost of their board, and thus obtaining the use of a pair of extra good wings.

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.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child’s love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

If you have to stand and fight, you train yourself so that you’re able to do it.

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.