I've never thought sitting around worrying helps anything, except to help shorten your life.

If you find yourself worrying, go outside, take three breaths, address a tree and quietly say, 'Thank you.' If you can't find a tree, a dandelion will do... Nature is magic.

I never thought that I would support myself with art - everyone in the Group of Seven had day jobs. I became a geography teacher so that I could get free field trips into the wilderness to paint.

To me the most important thing in a piece of art is the thought. Technique is totally secondary.

I got serious about painting at 12, when most people give up.

It doesn't take more skill to paint hundreds of strokes rather than one right stroke but it takes more patience.

If I ever have a conflict between art and nature, I let art win.

The most important question facing the planet is: Is it worth it?

Nature is not a free lunch, but we treat it as a free lunch.

In our instant pudding world, everything is sweet, smooth, very convenient and fast. There are lots of assorted flavors, but they're all artificial.

Aesthetic pleasure is not to be taken lightly; it's very important for the spirit and therefore the health.

Those who are acquainted with failure acquire the unique ability to dare without fear of it.

There had once been a time when I'd dreaded the end of summer, had prayed it would hold out for as long as possible. Now the thought of endless warmth and sun made me . . . bored. Restless.

His [John Paul II] humanity, combined with his extraordinary spiritual authority, was unlike anything I've ever met.

I don't care what you do to me, but I don't want you to hurt me. I've had enough hurt already in my life. More than enough. Now I want to be happy.

Our brokenness has no other beauty but the beauty that comes from the compassion that surrounds it.

I jumped out of perfectly good airplanes and it's a great thrill, and it allows me to share in the dangers that the great men - our great men and women in uniform share in on a regular basis.

Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad, whatever is done and suffered by her creatures. All scars she heals, whether in rocks or water or sky or hearts.

It is the ordinary woman who knows something about love; the gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.

To float like a cloud you have to go to the trouble of becoming one.

No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.