He who walks may see and understand. You can study all America from one hilltop, if your eyes are open and your mind is willing to reach. But first you must walk to that hill.

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.

The truth can be known or realized but cannot be change or modify.

Don't let out your true behaviour in the public, even if you were born nasty, make others feel you were well bred.

Poets and painters are outside the class system or rather they constitute a special class of their own like the circus people and the gypsies.

Pianos tend to get better as they age, the more you play them. They grow into their sound.

Don't be the ammunition wagon, be the rifle... knowledge exists primarily for use.

I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.

It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life.

She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!

I don't want to die without knowing who I am.

Subjectivism is not an absolute principle; it is a necessary but not sufficient condition for sound methodology.