A frontier is never a place; it is a time and a way of life.

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

Nature seems to look after her own only up to a certain point; beyond that they are supposed to fend for themselves.

For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the denial falters in the face of evidence on every hand. In every tuft of grass, in every bird, in every opening bud, there it is.

As I stood and watched the mists slowly rising this morning I wondered what view was more beautiful than this.

Consider the wheelbarrow. It may lack the grace of an airplane, the speed of an automobile, the initial capacity of a freight car, but its humble wheel marked out the path of what civilization we still have.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.