Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

The land created me. I’m wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I’m more at home in the vacant lots.

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.

Friends accept you the way you are.

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

For greed all nature is too little.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

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

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.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Nature has always had more force than education.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines… There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.

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

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

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

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

Things won’t get better dwelling on the past. Accept what has happened. Then move forward.

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

I’m not looking to exclude people, I’m looking to include them.

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There’s no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

I mean, Hawaii is beautiful, but the world is full of beautiful places.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

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

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

If you’re going to wake up early all the time, and you’re working hard, and you’re working out, sometimes you’re going to get tired. It’s OK. It’s acceptable – somewhat. We’re all human, unfortunately.

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.

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you – black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

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

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.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

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.

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end.

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 belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

Chastity – the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

I love the sea.

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

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

I’m very picky; I’m never happy with anything. It’s so hard to give the record away and accept that you’re done.

Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

If it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

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

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.