Latest Quotes

“I'm not ready to let the youthful part of myself go yet. If maturity means becoming a cynic, if you have to kill the part of yourself that is naive and romantic and idealistic - the part of you that you treasure most - to claim maturity, is it not better to die young but with your humanity intact?”

— Kenneth Cain, Emergency Sex: And Other Desperate Measures

“This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.”

— John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

“Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mother's face.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life

“Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.”

— Isaac Newton, Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica

“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”

— Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.”

— E. B. White, Letters of E.B. White

“I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past child…”

— Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“We need the tonic of wildness... At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”

— Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.”

— Jack London, The Call of the Wild

“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature – the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.”

— Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.”

— Elizabeth Kübler Ross, On Death and Dying

“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery — air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, 'This is what it is to be happy.'”

— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“expose your heartbeat and you’ll feel the heat from the stars as they course through your body and unstitch your scars and open you up to the strangers whose potential you’ve thrown into surrender this whole time. You’ll remember how it felt to feel alive, how it felt to feel full and thrive on some…”

— Bianca Sparacino, Planting Seeds In Concrete

“If actions speak louder than words, I'm the most deafening noise you've heard. I'll be that ringing in your ears that will stick around for years.”

— Touché Amoré, open.spotify.com

“After a visit to the beach, it’s hard to believe that we live in a material world.”

— Pam Shaw, A Day at the Beach

“Don't be ashamed to weep. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.”

— Brian Jacques, Taggerung

“She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.”

— Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“As a type designer I sort of see this as if everyone in the world decided in 2010 that Helvetica is going to be the only acceptable rendering of the alphabet. The Apple emoji style is one choice, not the only choice.”

— Colin M. Ford, Colin M. Ford, Emoji: Looking Good! — Making Faces (and Other Emoji)

“The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no lif…”

— Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.”

— Walt Whitman, Leaves Of Grass