“Time is the river. We are the islands. Time washes around us and flows away and with it flow fragments of our lives. So, little by little, each island shrinks.But where, who can say, down the long ...”

“Nature is shy and noncommittal in a crowd. To learn her secrets, visit her alone or with a single friend, at most. Everything evades you, everything hides, even your thoughts escape you, when you w...”

“If man can take care of man, nature can take care of the rest.”

“For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.”

“Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.”

“The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.”

“Its as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.”

“Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”

“People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.”