The only time you look in your neighbor’s bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don’t look in your neighbor’s bowl to see if you have as much as them.
Stop trying to ‘fix’ yourself; you’re NOT broken! You are perfectly imperfect and powerful beyond measure.
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
Nature is pleased with simplicity.
Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
No man was ever wise by chance.
There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.
Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.
Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.
Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does.
I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news.
Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
Be less of a judge and you will be surprised that when you become a witness and you don’t judge yourself, you stop judging others too. And that makes you more human, more compassionate, more understanding.
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.