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.

April is a promise that May is bound to keep.

That's the mark of true friends. That we might not see each other for a year but when we do it's as if we were never apart.

But [Everett] and McCandless, at least they tried to follow their dream. That’s what was great about them. They tried. Not many do.

But love doesn't do what's easy. Love does what's necessary and right.

The moral of the story is this: sometimes, to do nothing, to do nothing at all, is the sorriest thing ever.

What you do matters — but not much. What you are matters tremendously.

The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.

Who guides below, and rules above, The great disposer, and the mighty king; Than He none greater, next Him none, That can be, is, or was.

I don't like to sit around whining about the corporate media, how they control everything, own everything. We already know that.

Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.

Life is short and love is over in the morning.