Weekend planning is a prime time to apply the Deathbed Priority Test: On your deathbed, will you wish you'd spent more prime weekend hours grocery shopping or walking in the woods with your kids?

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.

He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound..

It has always been desirable to tell the truth, but seldom if ever necessary.

Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.

In Hollywood, after you get a little success, the next thing you usually get is a divorce.

We talk about the past like it's the strangest dream. Then we repeat the things we never dreamed we'd do.

I'm very underground.

People hate what they don't understand and try to destroy it.

I wonder how it is that people's philosophies have come to spin faster than the changing seasons.

If one imagines unlovely things for another, they are going to produce them - not in the other, but in themselves.