Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
Leap, and the net will appear.
I still find each day too short.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
We are made strong by what we overcome.
The secret of happiness is something to do.
The place to observe nature is where you are.
To see Earth fully we already need to love it
We cannot walk through life on mountain peaks.
Without death and decay, how could life go on?
A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
I was born with a chronic anxiety about the weather.
I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
The art of nature is all in the direction of concealment.
Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it.
The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
Nothing relieves and ventilates the mind like a resolution.
All sounds are sharper in winter; the air transmits better.
If you want to see birds, you must have birds in your heart.
In the order of nature we may behold the ways of the Eternal.
To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
When you bait your hook with your heart, the fish always bite.
Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides.
The God of the Puritans...was a monster too horrible to contemplate.
Love is the measure of life; only so far as we love do we really live.
Unfortunately, nuclear weapons have become identified with state power.
One may return to the place of his birth, He cannot go back to his youth.
We now use the word 'nature' very much as our fathers used the word 'God.'
One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds.
One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
One can return to their place of birth, but one cannot go back to your youth.
[T]he cold warms me—after a different fashion from that of the kitchen stove.
England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
We can outrun the wind and the storm, but we cannot outrun the demon of hurry.
The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
The overall quantity of nuclear weapons in the world continues to decline slowly.
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
Literature is an investment of genius which pays dividends to all subsequent times.
You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
Now is the time of the illuminated woods ... when every leaf glows like a tiny lamp.
Close scrutiny of an object in nature will nearly always yield some significant fact.
I came from a race of fishers; trout streams gurgled about the roots of my family tree.
To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
