To know only artificial night is as absurd and evil as to know only artificial day.

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.

Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.

Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places.

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it.

We need another and a wiser and a perhaps more mystical concept of animals.

The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter woods.

Wolves are not our brothers; they are not our subordinates, either. They are another nation, caught up just like us in the complex web of time and life.

The seas are the hearts blood of the earth. Plucked up and kneaded by the sun and the moon, the tides are systole and diastole of earth's veins.

It is only when we are aware of the earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live.

Into every empty corner, into all forgotten things and nooks, nature struggles to pour life, pouring life into the dead, life into life itself.

The cafe was called Tattoos. The fella who owned it didn't have any tattoos... but we never saw his wife.

Grow in a way without losing much of our inner childlike deep senses embracing truthful, pure, simple relief of appreciation and gratitude.

Where you see difficulty, I see opportunity.

There's a massive part of me that can be bold and courageous...very strong and very assertive and independent, almost to a fault sometimes.

Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour.

You probably love to tell kids to get off your lawn, too.

One is just given a talent, and it's one's duty to make the most of it.

True valor is like honesty; it enters into all that a man sees and does.

Those persons who have perceptive eyes enjoy beauty everywhere.

Nick is driving us," Jamie informed him. "Nick has a car. Nick has TWO cars. Ha!