Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society's fault.

I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature..

"To call such persons "humorists", a loose-fitting and ugly word, is to miss the nature of their dilemma and the dilemma of their nature."

"As the twig is bent the tree inclines."

"We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses."

"The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner."

"The gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present."

"Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves."

"A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan-like leaves to the light, and closed them beneath the kisses of night."

"The sunlight claps the earth And the moonbeams kiss the sea: What are all these kissings worth If thou kiss not me?"

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."

"Nature is not human hearted."

"Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours."

"But a fool must follow his natural bent / (Even as you and I!)."

"You have not known even a fragment of My reality. The full nature of this reality can never be understood by anyone."

"Food conditions the nature of the mind. Mind guides the thinking. Thinking results in action. Actions lead to commensurate or matching results and effects. This chain of action between the food we eat and the results of our actions highlights the fact that meat eating leads to beastly actions and the concomitant evil effects."

"Nature can be modified by nurture; even dogs can cease to relish meat when they are trained to relish only vegetarian food."

"Gravitation has existed on earth since we do not know when. It had its origin along with the Creation of the Earth."

"I was eating lots of vegetables and fruit every day during my pregnancy - my baby needed the best of the best, so it was the opposite of overeating. I had this being inside of me, and I was responsible for everything he got."

"I have a lot of fruit trees and my own little vegetable garden and chickens. And every time I eat, I bless my food; I say I'm grateful for for it and let it nourish every part of my body."

"If I could choose, I'd be bare feet with animals all around me and living in a tree house. Like Tarzan and Jane, that's my dream. I'm at my happiest around nature."

"To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature"

"Do not suffer your good nature [...] to say yes when you ought to say no; remember that it is a public not a private cause that is to be injured or benefitted by your choice"

"Look, when you're the president, there's all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it's just the nature of the job."