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.

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

I am two with nature.

One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.

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

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

I love driving my car on any highway.

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

I’m touring the world, not doing nothing against the law, getting money to feed my family. I got employees that have felonies, and they can’t get jobs. They work for me.

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

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever – wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.

Africa is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb towards it.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

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.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

The worst way of flying, I think, is standby. It never works. That’s why they call it standby. You end up standing there going, ‚Bye!‘

I love the sea.

Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

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.

I spent more time on dark ships in danger zones than any other woman in the world.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

I like the idea of making a big, fun, adventure type of movie.

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

I’ve been waiting over 40 years to come to Cyprus, and it has not disappointed – the birthplace of Aphrodite, the Crossroads of Civilization, and, I might add, a genuine strategic partner to the United States of America.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

If I see a mountain, I just pick up and hike it.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

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

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

Gardening is not a rational act.

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.

I didn’t want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn’t like it. I always wanted to do other things.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Obviously, because of my disability, I need assistance. But I have always tried to overcome the limitations of my condition and lead as full a life as possible. I have traveled the world, from the Antarctic to zero gravity.

I shouldn’t be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.

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.

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

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies – it is the first law of nature.

Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

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.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

We never look deeply into the quality of a tree; we never really touch it, feel its solidity, its rough bark, and hear the sound that is part of the tree. Not the sound of wind through the leaves, not the breeze of a morning that flutters the leaves, but its own sound, the sound of the trunk and the silent sound of the roots.

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.