To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home.

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.

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

There are some things, but not too many, toward which the countryman knows he must be properly respectful if he would avoid pain, sickness and injury. Nature is neither punitive nor solicitous, but she has thorns and fangs as wells as bowers and grassy banks.

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

He who travels west travels not only with the sun but with history.

There it is, fog, atmospheric moisture still uncertain in destination, not quite weather and not altogether mood, yet partaking of both.