October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

All walking is discovery. On foot we take the time to see things whole.

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

There it is, fog, atmospheric moisture still uncertain in destination, not quite weather and not altogether mood, yet partaking of both.

As I stood and watched the mists slowly rising this morning I wondered what view was more beautiful than this.

Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination.

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

Can I have my ear back?" He asked irritably.She blinked."Mother, can you tell this creature here to loosen her hold?

Otis Grows is a kid’s book that looks at adult problems. It playfully engages us all to consider: what’s tough, what’s inherent, but most of all, what’s possible.

Spirtual does not mean divorced from the physical, earthly realm. The Earth is one of the most divine forms in all creation.

A school is a place through which you have to pass before entering life, but where the teaching proper does not prepare you for life.

We live by action—by acting on desire. Those of us who don't know how to want—whether geniuses or beggars—are related by impotence.

Blood!...Blood!... That's a good thing! A ghost who bleeds is less dangerous!

The music business is really a spiritual business whether we know it or not.

True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.

It is essential to his happiness that he should continually advance.

Don't be misled by History, or any other unreliable source.