Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

We’re one of the only animals in the world that don’t really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals, and we must respect our fellow animals.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

True Scouts are the best friends of animals, for from living in the woods and wilds, and practising observation and tracking, they get to know more than other people about the ways and habits of birds and animals, and therefore they understand them and are more in sympathy with them.

The Hell’s Angels try not to do anything halfway, and anyone who deals in extremes is bound to cause trouble, whether he means to or not. This, along with a belief in total retaliation for any offense or insult, is what makes the Hell’s Angels unmanageable for the police and morbidly fascinating to the general public.

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

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

I would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in 2012.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

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

You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also… your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.

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

I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

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

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

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

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.

Regarded zoologically, man is today an almost isolated figure in nature. In his cradle, he was less isolated.

Oh, my mama was awesome. Very strict, overreligious, loved the Lord, loved rules. But she had to be that way because of where we were growing up, the neighborhood I was from.

I love being in a courtroom.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law. It’s nine-tenths of the problem.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

Here ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again.

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

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.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

All art is but imitation of nature.

If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

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.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

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.

Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. It involves subtle trickery, beautiful tightropes of logic on which one has to walk in order not to make a mistake in predicting what will happen. The quantum mechanical and the relativity ideas are examples of this.

In time of war the laws are silent.

I’m crepuscular.

The earth laughs in flowers.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

In most communities it is illegal to cry ‚fire‘ in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

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.

I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.

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

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.

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.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

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.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.

Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.