Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others... And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
I dream in my dreams all the dreams of the other dreamers. And I become the other dreamers.
To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.
A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.
I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.
Dismiss whatever insults your soul.
Without enough wilderness America will change. Democracy, with its myriad personalities and increasing sophistication, must be fibred and vitalized by regular contact with outdoor growths - animals, trees, sun warmth and free skies - or it will dwindle and pale.
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
I and this mystery, here we stand.
I am not contain'd between my hat and boots.
Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find."
The whole purpose of the universe is unerringly aimed at one thing - you.
Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth ever afterward resumes its liberty.
Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless-each of us with his or her right upon the earth.
Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I choose. Henceforth, I ask not good fortune, I myself am good fortune. Henceforth, I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing.
Peace is always beautiful.
I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained; I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition; They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins; They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God; Not one is dissatisfied-not one is demented with the mania of owning things; Not one kneels to another, nor his kind that lived thousands of years ago; Not one is responsible or industrious over the whole earth.
I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
The earth does not argue, Is not pathetic, has no arrangements, Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise, Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable failures, Closes nothing, refuses nothing, shuts none out.
I hate commas in the wrong places.
Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.
Nothing endures but personal qualities.
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree toad is a chef-d'oeurve for the highest, And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven, And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery, And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any statue, And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels!
Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.
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