Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons.

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.

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.

Walking is also an ambulation of mind.

Progress can’t be achieved without investing in and constantly improving yourself.

We do know that we are cheated from birth to the overcharge on our coffins.

To vigorous men intimacy is a matter of shame--and something precious.

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift except the gift of the power to use them.

Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don't care attitude about clothes. You don't care, you just do it and it looks great.

Remain true to yourself and your philosophy. Changing in the face of adversity will in fact diminish your credibility with your customers.

Golf's Holy Grail - a genius course.

The message of khaddar can penetrate to the remotest villages if we only will that it shall be so.

Sometimes I wanted to believe something so badly, I deliberately manufactured excuses and ignored painful reality.

I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.