There is a leisure about walking, no matter what pace you set, that lets down the tension.

The most unhappy thing about conservation is that it is never permanent. Save a priceless woodland or an irreplaceable mountain today, and tomorrow it is threatened from another quarter.

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.

Nothing in nature is as simple as it sometimes seems when reduced to words.

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

There are two seasonal diversions that can ease the bite of any winter. One is the January thaw. The other is the seed catalogues.

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