An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress and what by a dome.

Our soul is cast into a body where it finds number time dimension. Thereupon it reasons and calls this nature necessity and can believe nothing else.

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over the wound is closed and healed done with.

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments there are consequences.

There is but one law for all namely that law which governs all law the law of our Creator the law of humanity justice equity - the law of nature and of nations.

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.

There are a lot of conservative people a lot of moderate people Republicans Democrats in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty that makes human nature rise above itself in acts of bravery and heroism.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything even nature.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

There are certain pursuits which if not wholly poetic and true do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees for instance.

He who can be and therefore is another's and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend but not to have is a slave by nature.

We are by nature observers and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body it gives boldness enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer.

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.