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.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. Somebody needs what you have to give. It may not be your money; it may be your time. It may be your listening ear. It may be your arms to encourage. It may be your smile to uplift. Who knows?

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

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 correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

We go on in our pleasures thinking they’re going to last forever.

Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach you how to be attentive. If any system teaches you how to be attentive, then you are attentive to the system, and that is not attention.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

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

My skin is 24 karat gold when a sun hit it.

The environment is everything that isn’t me.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

I give the name of cosmic sense to the more or less confused affinity that binds us psychologically to the All which envelops us. The existence of this feeling is indubitable, and apparently as old as the beginning of thought… The cosmic sense must have been born as soon as man found himself facing the forest, the sea and the stars.

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one’s beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure and daily discoveries – the wonder of the growing crops, the excitements of the harvest, the journeys to the woods for nuts and hunting, the joys of snowy winters, the comfort of the family fireside, of good food and tender care.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.

Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.

Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it’s a good place that we’re all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

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

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It’s a gift.

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

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.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

Men always want and love when women wear tight and fitted clothing, right? And you’re like, ‚Wow, she looks so beautiful.‘ And then you have men who dress like slobs, and you’re like, ‚What’s the deal with these big and baggy suits.‘ It’s pretty ridiculous.

Beauty and femininity are ageless and can’t be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won’t like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it’s based on femininity.

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.

Pay attention, don’t let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

I don’t think I get that upset over things.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.