Water’s never clumsy.

Think of our physical sustenance. It is truly heaven-sent. The necessities of air, food, and water all come to us as gifts from a loving Heavenly Father.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.

Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb towards it.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

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.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.

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.

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

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

Africa is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

I’m getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can’t stop lifting it, and I love that you know.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

The extreme weakness of quantum gravitational effects now poses some philosophical problems; maybe nature is trying to tell us something new here: maybe we should not try to quantize gravity.

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

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

If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

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

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

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.

I’m an instant star. Just add water and stir.

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

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

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

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

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Water is life, and clean water means health.

The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

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.

I don’t know that much about who directs what movies, but I’m definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

Girls are soft and pretty.

You don’t need to buy expensive cosmetics; almost anything will do if you know how to apply 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.

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.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

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