When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you.
Even the people who have it do not definitely know what genius is.
Man is not himself only. . . He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources. . . He is the land, the lift of its mountain lines, the reach of its valleys.
This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough
As I walk. . as I walk. . The universe. . is walking with me. . Beautifully. . it walks before me. . . . Beautifully. . on every side. . . . As I walk. . I walk with beauty.
For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.
The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.
Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.
Happiness is less regulated by external circumstances than inward enjoyment. Whoever is happy in the satisfaction of himself feels imperturbable felicity; but he, who trusts entirely to the world for the disposition of his peace, must inevitably participate [in] many privations and disappointments.
Art is the child of imagination and gives life.
Pollution is an unused resource.