It is better to do one's own duty however defective it may be than to follow the duty of another however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it never sins.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.

Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain I seek relief in the trail and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn my cares fall from me - I am happy.

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms I move through them yet in metaphysical ones they seem to move through me.

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 sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert where man is never lonely for he feels life stirring on all sides.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.

We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We've made a lot of friends and one enemy we've always had was the NME. They've always basically slated us and they've basically never ever written about the music.

Ain't nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio but you should never compromise who you are your values or your morals.

You can never stop discovering music.

I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it even amidst great pop music.

I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star.