There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.

My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else – I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

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.

People should not make me out to be like Jesus; I don’t walk on water.

Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.

I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity and a problem we must collectively attempt to solve.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

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.

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.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

Contention does not usually begin as strife between countries. More often, it starts with an individual, for we can contend within ourselves over simple matters of right and wrong. From there, contention can infect neighbors and nations like a spreading sore.

The root of this possibility of doing good – that we all have – is in creation.

It is odd that we have so little relationship with nature, with the insects and the leaping frog and the owl that hoots among the hills calling for its mate. We never seem to have a feeling for all living things on the earth.

We are the first species capable of self-annihilation.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

The earth’s crust has not yet stopped heaving and plunging under our feet. Mountain ranges are still being thrust up on the horizon. Granites are still growing under the continental masses. Nor has the organic world ceased to produce new buds at the tips of its countless branches.

There is no injustice in the grace of God. God is as just when He forgives a believer as when He casts a sinner into hell.

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

What has happened at Guantanamo Bay… does not represent the will of the American people. I’m embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.

Nature is wont to hide herself.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature’s forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

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.

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.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

When there’s justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it’s okay for me to say those things.

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts – the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet – the only one in the whole Milky Way – with a century of transportation whoopee.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.