"Nature appears to have been the cruel..." - Quote by Leonardo Da Vinci

“O Time with your teethy years! You swallow up all things little by little in a slow-motion, wrinkling process of dying.”

“He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion.”

“We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us.”

“And over one more set of hills, along the sea, the last roses have opened their factories of sweetness and are giving it back to the world. If I had another life I would want to spend it all on some unstinting happiness.”

“We go on dating from Cold Fridays and Great Snows; but a little colder Friday, or greater snow would put a period to man's existence on the globe.”

“The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild, and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness is the preservation of the World”

“Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.”

“When cruelty is inflicted on innocent people, it discredits whatever cause.”

“My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.”