Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer.

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful.

Country music is about new love and it's about old love.