Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

I like playing basketball and going to the gym. I don’t box, but I’ll ride my bike and go jogging or running in the park. Sometimes my lady and I go hiking.

I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

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.

Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.

Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they’re between you and God.

Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

If I wished to do something, even if I couldn’t find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

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

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

Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one’s gaze.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

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.

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

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.

Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

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.

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.

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

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

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

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.

On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one’s own town.

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

From the boys‘ point of view, scouting puts them into fraternity-gangs, which is their natural organisation, whether for games, mischief, or loafing; it gives them a smart dress and equipments; it appeals to their imagination and romance; and it engages them in an active, open-air life.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

Many readers fail to realize this, but ‚The Color Purple‘ is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one’s original God: the earth and nature.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.