Walking is man’s best medicine.

I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

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.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child’s love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

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.

I eat next to nothing.

To be admitted to Nature’s hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

I’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‚Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.‘

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

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

Man is by nature a political animal.

I won’t have to do any major changes to continue my career a long way, hopefully. Just hopefully stay healthy and be able to help a team out as I go through and still play at a pretty high level.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

Sleep is all about recovering. So if you’re not sleeping, you’re not recovering. And if you’re going to break your body down a lot, you better find ways to build it back up. And the only way to do that is get a lot of sleep. So for me, I go to bed at like 8:30, 9:00. As soon as I put my kids to bed. Because I’m up at 5:30 the next day.

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

Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

I think it’s horrible that people have to be told. Don’t smoke! Everybody knows it’s bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half warm enough until Emerson came. I had read his essays, and felt sure that of all men he would best interpret the sayings of these noble mountains and trees. Nor was my faith weakened when I met him in Yosemite.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

I don’t think people should be encouraged to look like Kate Moss; I think that’s unreasonable. I think the normal human body should be glorified. By the same token, if you need a stick to wash yourself, you’re not healthy.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

Many readers fail to realize this, but ‚The Color Purple‘ is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one’s original God: the earth and nature.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans – an avian flu pandemic.

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.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

I would love to encourage all my teammates to eat the best way they possibly can. High school athletes. Now, that’s not the way our food system in America is set up. It’s very different. They have a food pyramid, and I disagree with that. I disagree with a lot of things that people tell you to do.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.

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.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

The environment is everything that isn’t me.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

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

Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.

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.

Medicines are only fit for old people.

I think it’s quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you’ve got another reason for keeping fit.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

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.

Coaches will say that it’s not important for their team to run more, and they prefer to make games the right way. I want to make games only the right way and run 10 km more.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

I don’t believe in ‚thinking‘ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies – a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult – my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

I collect records. And cats. I don’t have any cats right now. But if I’m taking a walk and I see a cat, I’m happy.

One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can’t swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it’s what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.

If you want to deal with an epidemic – crime or health – the smartest and most effective and cheapest way to deal with it is prevention first.

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

Without exercise, I don’t feel like my head works right.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.