How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature's varied forms.

I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self.

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.

I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.