There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over the wound is closed and healed done with.
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments there are consequences.
There is but one law for all namely that law which governs all law the law of our Creator the law of humanity justice equity - the law of nature and of nations.
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.
There are a lot of conservative people a lot of moderate people Republicans Democrats in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it.
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty that makes human nature rise above itself in acts of bravery and heroism.
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything even nature.
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
There are certain pursuits which if not wholly poetic and true do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees for instance.
He who can be and therefore is another's and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend but not to have is a slave by nature.
We are by nature observers and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body it gives boldness enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer.
There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
For every person who has ever lived there has come at last a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
The snow itself is lonely or if you prefer self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
Everything is blooming most recklessly if it were voices instead of colors there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down but the staying down.