Am I like the optimist who while falling ten stories from a building says at each story "I'm all right so far"?

To rise above treeline is to go above thought, and after, the descent back into bird song, bog orchids, willows, and firs is to sink into the preliterate parts of ourselves.

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.

To trace the history of a river . . . is to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body.

A tree is a thought, an obstruction stopping the flow of wind and light, trapping water, housing insects, birds, and animals, and breathing in and out. How treelike the human, how human the tree.

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still.

I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.

I like big, open, spare landscapes. There's lots of room. Nobody bothers you... I feel as if I can think there.

Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons.

Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals.

Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life.

I almost moved mountains, touched rivers, impressed deserts and motivated skies, but I never made it to your heart.

Always Prefer to be Simple & Fair, that Leads toward Purity

Love stories always seem to be a spark.

Character is the final decision to reject whatever is demeaning to oneself or to others and with confidence and honesty choose what is right.

It is remarkable what a woman can accomplish with just a little ambition.

I have always liked black and white! It is simple and the colour of the piano.

My view is there's no bad time to innovate.

I'm getting better every day in every way.

When you look at your life the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.

Nobody had beheld the gravitation of the two into one