Nature is shy and noncommittal in a crowd. To learn her secrets, visit her alone or with a single friend, at most. Everything evades you, everything hides, even your thoughts escape you, when you walk in a crowd.
If man can take care of man, nature can take care of the rest.
In nature there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.
The measure of an enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart.
For the mind disturbed the still beauty of dawn is nature’s finest balm.
Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life and the labors of life reduce themselves.
The measure of an enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart.
Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance.
The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider’s web.
Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals ‘love’ them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.
For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature’s finest balm.
Time and space – time to be alone, space to move about – these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.
The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.