We’re all human, aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.
It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
The earth has music for those who listen.
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.
Man is the cruelest animal.
I now walk into the wild.
People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more.
I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
The mountains are calling and I must go.
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.