“Come friends, it’s not too late to seek a newer world.”

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”

“Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.”

“The road to success is always under construction. ”

“Engineers are not mere technicians and should not approve or lend their name to any project that does not promise to be beneficent to man and the advancement of civilization.”

“In making war with nature, there was risk of loss in winning.”

“If we understand that design leads to the manifestation of human intentions…. Then the things we make must not only rise from the ground but return to it… so that everything that is received from the earth can be freely given back without causing harm to any living system. This is ecology. This is good design.”

“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”

“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”

“Creativity is contagious, pass it on.”

“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.”

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”

“Only if we are capable of dwelling, only then can we build.”

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.”