. . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers; a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures.

though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.

Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.

America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.

I was always a feminist, for I liked intellectual revolt as much as I disliked physical violence. On the whole, I think women havelost something precious, but have gained, immeasurably, by the passing of the old order.

Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.

Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.