Butterflies doing strange things in very beautiful ways were in my mind when I sat down, but by the time my pen was uncapped my thoughts had shifted to rocks.

The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and stagnation, melody, the mystery of unknown waters, and the sweetness of Nature undisturbed by man.

I can only think of one experience which might exceed in interest a few hours spent under water, and that would be a journey to Mars.

A first walk in any new country is one of the things which makes life on this planet worth being grateful for.

To be a Naturalist is better than to be a King.

The isness of things is well worth studying; but it is their whyness that makes life worth living.

Earth has few secrets from the birds.

……but work in the field has nothing to do with dignity or with anything except patience, concentration, and eternal vigilance

Your spiritual path is decided by your vision and accomplished by your consistency.

Trust me, I write fiction.

When you see a filmmaker getting too fancy... you can bet he's worried either about his story or his ability to tell it.

Life is about trusting, loving, growing and healing even in the hurts which can occur.

Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.

I think I'm happy with who I am. I don't know if I learned that from other girls or just people in general.

Government is, at every level, a means to gather in the labor and wealth of the people, and then instruct the people about new restrictions or monitoring of their lives.

The other countries did not share the same concern the United States had in the early '90's - that North Korea actually had an ongoing nuclear weapons program.

Throughout my career, Ive wrestled a lot of countries.

Turkey is using the Islamic State in the same way as Pakistan used the Taliban in Afghanistan. You know, that's perhaps Turkey's strategy.