In nature there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace.

For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.

For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.

Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals 'love' them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.

In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

All things seem possible in May.

It is morally as bad not to care whether anything is true or not.

Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.

The world's favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May.

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

The pain and shame felt are unknown to those with planned vacations. They know not of the tsunami that rescinded the homes, goals, and hopes of its victims—swallowed by the sea of greed.

The thing about dignity: it can be destroyed, but not taken unless it's given away. It can always be beautified.

I don't go around thinking of myself as a great anything.

A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is torn to rags; the rest is entirely out of fashion.

Not to gain time, but maybe to lose it, to see it pass.

An encounter with the superior energy is open to anyone but remains far from those who shift responsibility onto others.

You're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.

I trained for less than three-quarters of an hour, maybe five days a week - I didn't have time to do more. But it was all about quality, not quantity - so I didn't waste time jogging, ever.

I want the people who listen to my music to feel the feeling that I feel, to cry the cry that I cry - justice. I want them to feel in their hearts the need for justice.