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

I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren’t very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods.

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

Peace begins with a smile.

I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

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.

One of the best ways to see tree flowers is to climb one of the tallest trees and to get into close, tingling touch with them, and then look broad.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay ‚forever young at heart.‘

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

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.

Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

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.

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

As we know, while our species remains alive, everybody has the sacred duty to be optimistic. Ethically, any other behaviour wouldn’t be admissible.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

The coniferous forests of the Yosemite Park, and of the Sierra in general, surpass all others of their kind in America, or indeed the world, not only in the size and beauty of the trees, but in the number of species assembled together, and the grandeur of the mountains they are growing on.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

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

When I write, I write about my surroundings. Sometimes it’s light, and sometimes it gets very dark.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

When things are going bad, there’s going to be some good that’s going to come from it.

The fact is that since you’re a divine creation who originated in the world of Spirit, you have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you’re here on earth. It’s all perfect… and so are you!

Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

I love to play. And fortunately, I don’t know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they’re always up for playing.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

There are trees of a thousand sorts, and all have their several fruits; and I feel the most unhappy man in the world not to know them, for I am well assured that they are all valuable. I bring home specimens of them, and also of the land.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

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

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.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

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

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

In this great country, we celebrate success. We don’t want to penalize those who have done well.

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

I’m crepuscular.

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

The sun doesn’t always shine in West Virginia, but the people do.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.