It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.

No matter how intently one studies the hundred little dramas of the woods and meadows, one can never learn all the salient facts about any one of them.

there is no action kind enough to express heartbreak. I am left shut, the quietest of blossoms.

My nerves came back in full force. I'd thrown myself in the deep end, and, feeling like I had no idea how to swim, I had to get back to shore somehow. "I'm sorry, " I whispered.

No war is inevitable until it breaks out.

The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged.

Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.

Hear no ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy.

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

Do not lose power over the what-ifs of your life. These are unlimited and endless. Keep your power in the now, in present time.

It's wonderful to play around with fantasy, because there are an amazing number of as-yet-unbroken rules out there.

When I was a little kid I always wanted to be ginger. My best friend was ginger and he was pretty cool.