There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.

What a dull world if we knew all about geese!

There is time not only to see who has done what, but to speculate why.

If in a city we had six vacant lots available to the youngsters of a certain neighborhood for playing ball, it might be "development" to build houses on the first, and the second, and the third, and the fourth, and even the fifth, but when we build houses on the last one, we forget what houses are for.

The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive.

Never did we plan the morrow, for we had learned that in the wilderness some new and irresistible distraction is sure to turn up each day before breakfast. Like the river, we were free to wander.

Patriotism requires less and less of making the eagle scream, but more and more of making him think.