It is morally as bad not to care whether anything is true or not.

For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace.

For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.

For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.

Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals 'love' them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.

In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

All things seem possible in May.

Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.

The world's favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May.

A man who never sees a bluebird only half lives.

The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.

There is not much left to see in this world if one sees her once.

The first need of being is endurance to endure with gladness if we can with fortitude in any event.

Hey anyone who thinks a non-military–grade rappelling cable can support the weight of two grown men and a miniature donkey deserves to fall off a cliff.

There are people in the world for whom "coming along" is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.

True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good - and we all know how rare that is.

...you look like you fell out of a crazy tree and hit every branch on the way down.

It is 11 years since I have seen my figure in a glass [mirror]. The last reflection I saw there was so disagreeable I resolved to spare myself such mortification in the future.

Women--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.

If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.