There are a lot of conservative people a lot of moderate people Republicans Democrats in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it.

The moral virtues then are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature indeed prepares in us the ground for their reception but their complete formation is the product of habit.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it it shines clear.

I am not bound for any public place but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.

Mother Nature may be forgiving this year or next year but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

The ground we walk on the plants and creatures the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy bound together by cosmic harmony.

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains but like them they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

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.

The sun with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.