The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

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.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.

Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.

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!

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don’t want my songs to make people sad. It’s very important for me that all my songs have some kind of hope or light.

When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

Instead of being critical of people in authority over you and envious of their position, be happy you’re not responsible for everything they have to do. Instead of piling on complaints, thank them for what they do. Overwhelm them with encouragement and appreciation!

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

Never complain. Never explain.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

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.

What is a farm but a mute gospel?

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

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.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.

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

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

I love imperfections.

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.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

When you’re outside, and everything is highland, it’s like nature has its own sound, and that’s one of my favorite sounds. I really loved sitting still silently outside, in a tree or in a bush, to just think.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

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.

Nature hates calculators.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help the team win. I think you have to take the good with the bad.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Whether we’re happy with our circumstances or not, giving God praise is so important.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‚Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.‘

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

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?

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

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