We’ve climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it’s a valley of peace.

I couldn’t take pictures of green rolling hills.

I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

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.

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.

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

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.

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

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

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

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won’t get much sleep.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

We make war that we may live in peace.

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

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

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

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known.

Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really easy way: stop participating in it.

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

What I’m trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

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

When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair, there is no hope.

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

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

On all the peaks lies peace.

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have… we always want more.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure and daily discoveries – the wonder of the growing crops, the excitements of the harvest, the journeys to the woods for nuts and hunting, the joys of snowy winters, the comfort of the family fireside, of good food and tender care.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

I don’t think I’ve ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

I’m not a parenting expert. In fact, I’m not sure that I even believe in the idea of ‚parenting experts.‘ I’m an engaged, imperfect parent and a passionate researcher. I’m an experienced mapmaker and a stumbling traveler. Like many of you, parenting is by far my boldest and most daring adventure.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

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

Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn’t happen.

U2’s best work has always been when we didn’t know what we’re doing.

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it’s a disaster that we have moved so far from nature.

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

The word ‚Islam‘ means ‚peace.‘ The word ‚Muslim‘ means ‚one who surrenders to God.‘ But the press makes us seem like haters.

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.

Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more had we literally gone to sleep.

The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.