We need to reconnect with the natural world to understand our place within it.

Material things aside, we need no advice but approval.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn

I promise you, my Majesty, there’s no better nation in the entire world than the New World.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

myself as much a citizen of America as anybody else and my great love has always been here in this country […] at the same time I don’t feel I am allied to any one particular country. I feel I am a citizen of the world. I feel that when the day comes when we have the barriers down and so forth so people come and go all around the world and be a part of any country, and I have always felt that about citizenship.

It’s the nature of the beast within us to keep going back to the familiar rather than to strap on faith and face the future.

Appreciate the members of your family for who they are, even though their outlook or style may be miles different from yours. Rabbits don’t fly. Eagles don’t swim. Ducks look funny trying to climb. Squirrels don’t have feathers. Stop comparing. There’s plenty of room in the forest.

One moment can change a day, one day can change a life and one life can change the world.

The multitude always strains after rarities and exceptions, and thinks little of the gifts of nature; so that, when prophecy is talked of, ordinary knowledge is not supposed to be included. Nevertheless it has as much right as any other to be called Divine.

You haven’t seen a tree until you’ve seen its shadow from the sky.

Habit is a second nature which destroys the first

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher’s mound. It was as if I’d been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

The world is what we think it is. If we can change our thoughts, we can change the world.

Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it’s a feather bed.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot

The world is made of language, and if you know the laws that govern language, you can make of it what you will.

The world is not made of atoms, it’s made of stories.

The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words.

No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.

As a kid, I was going to be a marine biologist or an actor. When I became successful as an actor, I said, Well, maybe I can lend a voice to this with an equal passion. You realize how lucky we are and how destructive we’ve been and what little regard we have for the natural world.

The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm, but because of those who look at it without doing anything.

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.

Once the battle is lost, once our natural splendor is destroyed, it can never be recaptured. And once an can no longer walk-through beauty or wonder at nature his spirit will wither and his sustenance be wasted.

My heart found its home long ago in the beauty, mystery, order and disorder of the flowering earth.