The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship

In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.

Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.

Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?

Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.

Never miss an opportunity of noticing anything of beauty ...

There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet.

In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. Nature says, -- he is my creature, and maugre all his impertinent griefs, he shall be glad with me

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough

The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.

Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.

God is not a watchmaker. God is a pimp.

I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.

Like a sprained ankle boy I aint nothin to play wit

The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive.

A saint has to be a misfit. A person who embodies what his culture considers typical or normal cannot be exemplary.

Pleasure, when it is a man's chief purpose, disappoints itself; and the constant application to it palls the faculty of enjoying it.

Sri Lanka is a small island, and the war affected everybody. Everybody knew somebody who was killing or being killed.

Remember my mantra: distinct... or extinct.

The things you absorb you will ultimately secrete. It's all out there and available for you to enjoy...and be nourished by.