Better a thousand times even a swiftly fading, ephemeral moment of life than the epoch-long unconsciousness of the stone.

For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.

To those whom the tree, the birds, the wildflowers represent only "locked-up dollars" have never known or really seen these things.

I see, when I bend close, how each leaflet of a climbing rose is bordered with frost, the autumn counterpart of the dewdrops of summer dawns. The feathery leaves of yarrow are thick with silver rime and dry thistle heads rise like goblets plated with silver catching the sun.

Looking at life through the eyes of a Daddy long legs: Imagine walking on legs so long you could cover a mile in fifty strides! Imagine looking to either side through eyes set not in your head but in a... hump in your back! Imagine your knees, when you walked, working a dozen feet or more above your head.

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

If man can take care of man, nature can take care of the rest.