It is only when we are aware of the earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live.

Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy.

The seas are the heart's blood of the earth.

Poor body, time and the long years were the first tailors to teach you the merciless use of clothes. Though some scold today because you are too much seen, to my mind, you are not seen fully enough or often enough when you are beautiful.

The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter woods.

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.

The adventure of the sun is the great natural drama by which we live, and not to have joy in it and awe of it, not to share in it, is to close a dull door on nature's sustaining and poetic spirit.