The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

An idea is salvation by imagination.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.