You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime that you were born into, some great rugged power that you are a part of.

Art is art, nature is nature, you cannot improve upon it.... Pictures should be inspired by nature, but made in the soul of the artist. It is the soul of the individual that counts.

Do not try to do extraordinary things but do ordinary things with intensity.

You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion.

It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw.

I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.

There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.

The liveness in me just loves to feel the liveness in growing things, in grass and rain and leaves and flowers and sun and feathers and furs and earth and sand and moss.

So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.

As the woods are the same, the trees standing in their places, the rocks and the earth... they are always different too, as lights and shadows and seasons and moods pass through them.

Your flavor in my mind swings back and forth between sweeter than any wine and as bitter as mustard greens.

I never knew how soothing trees are - many trees and patches of open sunlight and tree presences it is almost like having another being.

I began to realize that by carefully selecting the depth of field and making it narrow, I could create a sense of movement and reality that was in fact not there.

The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail; The body should always be little and sweet, And a sting should be felt in its tail.

Adhering to budgeting rules shouldn't trump good decision-making.

Multitudes think they like to do evil; yet no man ever really enjoyed doing evil since God made the world.

Sociopaths love power. They love winning. If you take loving kindness out of the human brain, there's not much left except the will to win.

My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths

Gentlemen who prefer bonds don't know what they're missing.

If you will study the scriptures diligently, your power to avoid temptation and to receive direction of the Holy Ghost in all you do will be increased.