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

It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

Walking is man’s best medicine.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

I like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people’s lives present themselves.

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they’ve been part of my education as a woman.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

People think you have to go through something to write about it, and you absolutely do not. You can write about, like, a shoe. It’s a story.

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

I know a lot of people who wouldn’t be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don’t understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

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.

I should be a postage stamp, because that’s the only way I’ll ever get licked. I’m beautiful. I’m fast. I’m so mean I make medicine sick. I can’t possibly be beat.

When someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it.

I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.

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

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

Being ‚contented‘ ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.

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!

Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their hanging-gardens, villas, garden-houses, islands, parks, and preserves.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I’ll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don’t taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

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.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

Blushing is the color of virtue.

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.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.

When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?