You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change, and change is the basic law.

To see a hillside white with dogwood bloom is to know a particular ecstasy of beauty, but to walk the gray Winter woods and find the buds which will resurrect that beauty in another May is to partake of continuity.

There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.

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

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

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.