The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain – a magic wand in Nature’s hand – every devout mountaineer knows its power; but the marvelous beauty value of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what poet has sung this?

The mountains are calling and I must go.

Probably because I’m from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don’t get too excited with big things.

When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

I can make something magical and wonderful out of nothing.

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

Taylor Swift’s audience can listen to me, but so can the street kids. I want to touch it all.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

The human heart is the same the world over.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

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

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

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies – it is the first law of nature.

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

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.

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.

As the poet said, ‚Only God can make a tree,‘ probably because it’s so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

If you’re in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.

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

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

When I was a kid, I thought movies just came from air. I thought they just appeared.

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.

How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.

Philosophy begins in wonder.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

Behold the child, by Nature’s kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

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

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

Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ‚the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.‘ The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ‚Artist.‘

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

While playing golf today I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

I suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things, they had to give place to better cattle, though the change might have been made without barbarous wickedness.

Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

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!

Many admire, few know.

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.