Echoes

It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth.

Come forth into the light of things, let Nature be your teacher.

Learn about pines from the pine, and about bamboo from the bamboo.

Methinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

The Tao is like a bellows: it is empty yet infinitely capable. The more you use it, the more it produces; the more you talk of it, the less you understand.

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act, to make use of our organs, senses, faculties — of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they've had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people... Unfortunately, that's too rare a commodity. A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.

Example is the best lesson there is.

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

I can only think while walking; as soon as I stop, I no longer think, and my mind only moves with my feet.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

The purpose of life...is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply.

Do not follow in the footsteps of the old masters, but seek what they sought — and find it in the mountains, the rivers, and the open sky.

I believe it is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.

Nor less I deem that there are Powers / Which of themselves our minds impress; / That we can feed this mind of ours / In a wise passiveness.

All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.

Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart and write.

The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

He who lives sees much. He who travels sees more.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty, & leave the rest for others that come after you, than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.

The earth teaches us more about ourselves than all the books in the world, because it is resistant to us.