April is a promise that May is bound to keep.

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.

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

Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

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

All our yesterdays are summarized in our now, and all the tomorrows are ours to shape.