Neil Young Quotes

There was a moth in there, and it still had its wings crumpled up, and it was just starting to pump its wings up. Life continues in lots of places, and life is a magical thing.

Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

The reason I can give wonder is that I feel wonder about the world: the stars, a tree, my body - everything.

The laws of nature are structured so that we grow and change, and get to experience the full spectrum of biological existence.

The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right.

Without death and decay, how could life go on?

[On common water.] Its substance reaches everywhere; it touches the past and prepares the future; it moves under the poles and wanders thinly in the heights of air. It can assume forms of exquisite perfection in a snowflake, or strip the living to a single shining bone cast up by the sea.

The world is still spinning and so are we and so are you. When the spinning stops - that'll be the time to worry. Not before.

The natural world is so adaptable...So adaptable you wonder what's natural.

Whatever you have is gonna die and you are gonna have to rebirth something new. You have to be willing to ride the waves.

If the river has a soul, it's a peaceful one. If it has a lesson to impart, that lesson is patience. There will be drought, it says; there will be floods; the ice will form, the ice will melt; the water will flow and blend into the river's brackish mouth, then join the ocean between Lewes and Cape May, endlessly, forever, amen.

The leaves let go, the seeds let go, and I must let go sometimes, too, and cast my lot with another of nature’s imperfect but tenacious survivors.

It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about.

Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things which you see, and out of their substance will make other things and again other things... in order that the world may be ever new.

Before birth; yes, what time was it then? A time like now, and when they were dead, it would be still like now: these trees, that sky, this earth, those acorn seeds, sun and wind, all the same, while they, with dust-turned hearts, change only.

Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.

Would there be trees if we didn't see them?

The sooner we realize that the world has changed, the sooner we can accept it and make something of what we've got. Whining isn't a scalable solution.

The world is a wheel always turning.

Life is the elimination of what is dead.

Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a person is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.