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.

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

I’m not saying that people should stop flying. I’m just saying it needs to be easier to be climate neutral.

If you don’t trust the pilot, don’t go.

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

I used to watch MotoGP quite a bit, I liked MotoGP. I had a motorbike before I had a go-kart and before I had a motorbike I had a quad bike but I was too dangerous, and before I did quad biking I did horse riding, so it’s been a long journey.

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.

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

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.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

We’re introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night’s sleep.

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

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

I owe my solitude to other people.

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.

Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature’s forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.

People want to go out and travel around and meet cool people. I could just go live in Vermont, but is that what I really want?

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

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

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.

I became a beach bum.

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.

Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.

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.

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

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Traveling around the world and preaching for over 70 years did not give much time for reflection.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, ‚I’m not interested,‘ or you’re unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don’t understand that, and I think it’s rude. You’re at Grandma’s house, you eat what Grandma serves you.

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

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

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

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

There’s nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.

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.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

Nature does nothing in vain.

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

There are trees of a thousand sorts, and all have their several fruits; and I feel the most unhappy man in the world not to know them, for I am well assured that they are all valuable. I bring home specimens of them, and also of the land.

I think Pebble Beach is kind of a unique place on the planet.

When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans – an avian flu pandemic.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

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.