Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.

Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

You can prove almost anything with the evidence of a small enough segment of time. How often, in any search for truth, the answer of the minute is positive, the answer of the hour qualified, the answers of the year contradictory!

A man who never sees a bluebird only half lives.

In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

Even the lifelong traveler knows but an infinitesimal portion of the Earth's surface. Those who have written best about the land and its wild inhabitants...have often been stay-at-home naturalists...concentrating their attention and affection on a relatively small area.

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.