Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.
The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.
To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.
If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.
Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.
Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism, but February.... Spring is too far away to comfort even by anticipation, and winter long ago lost the charm of novelty. This is the very three a.m. of the calendar.
Whenever man forgets that man is an animal, the result is always to make him less humane.
Long before I ever saw the desert I was aware of the mystical overtones which the observation of nature made audible to me. But I have never been more frequently or more vividly aware of them than in connection with the desert phenomena.
We need some contact with the things we sprang from. We need nature at least as a part of the context of our lives. Without cities we cannot be civilized. Without nature, without wilderness even, we are compelled to renounce an important part of our heritage.
The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.
Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.
Nothing is too great or too good to be true. Do not believe that we can imagine things better than they are. In the long run, in the ultimate outlook, in the eye of the Creator, the possibilities of existence, the possibilities open to us, are beyond our imagination.
The flowers never waste their sweetness on the desert air or, for that matter, on the jungle air. In fact, they waste it only when nobody except a human being is there to smell it. It is for the bugs and a few birds, not for men, that they dye their petals or waft their scents.
Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
It is not a sentimental, but a grimly literal fact that unless we share this terrestrial globe with creatures other than ourselves, we shall not be able to live on it for long.
When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.
True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity and greatness of his character.
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