"Nature hates calculators...." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The kitchen clock is more convenient than sidereal time. We must use the popular category, as we do by the Linnæan classification, for convenience, and not as exact and final. Otherwise, we are presently confounded, when the best-settled traits of one race are claimed by some new ethnologist as precisely characteristic of the rival tribe.”

“Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.”

“As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.”

“Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand”

“I call animals "guardians of Being," especially animals that live with humans. Because, for many humans, it's through their contact with animals they get in touch with that level of being.”

“The voice of nature is always encouraging.”

“Face the simple fact before it comes involved. Solve the small problem before it becomes big.”

“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”

“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.”