A tree is our most intimate contact with nature.

Each flitch, each board, each plank can have only one ideal use. The woodworker, applying a thousand skills, must find that ideal use and then shape the wood to realize its true potential.

It requires a genuine fight to produce one well designed object of relatively permanent value

After a year of doing general farm work, it was quite clear to me that chickens and I were not compatible.

If we are a body, then we are on that is afflicted with an autoimmune disease.

Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest.

The whole world may tell you how beautiful you are but there is that one person whose compliment will make you feel like a million bucks!

People love to talk but hate to listen.

You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today.

Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

What is it that makes all of us end each day with the sense that we have not lived our time, but have been lived, used by what we do?

[Envy not for...] Whatever difference there may appear to be in men's fortunes, there is still a certain compensation of good and ill in all, that makes them equal.

Why are you in such a rush?" Sophia asked, and her grandmother answered that it was a good idea to do things before you forgot that they had to be done.