It is not races but individuals that are noble and courageous or ignoble and craven or considerate or persistent or philosophical or reasonable. The race gets credit when the percentage of noble individuals is high.

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

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.

How sad would be November if we had no knowledge of the spring!

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

Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance.

How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is often far from a true measure of your days of living.