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

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 ...

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.

If ruining the only religious icon I have leaves me vulnerable to Martian vampires, I'll have to risk it.

I REMEMBER WHEN ALL THIS WILL BE AGAIN.

Buddy eyed me closely. His eyes were filigreed with red. I watched as he went through one of those instantaneous mood swings that only drunks and menstruating women can manage.

There's a lot about records that you cannot feel from a CD.

You can't just sit around and watch life pass you by. You have to keep dreaming. Sonny taught me that, and I intend to do him proud.

Mom is always saying I'm a smart kid, but that I just don't apply myself.

I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play, but in the spiritual arena there are people who are even closer to me than that.

When the gospel is at stake, everything is at stake.

Earning money is not a sin, and the bottom line is growth.

Stones have been known to move and trees to speak.