Wolves are not our brothers; they are not our subordinates, either. They are another nation, caught up just like us in the complex web of time and life.

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it.

Our fantastic civilization has fallen out of touch with many aspects of nature, and with none more completely than with night.

The adventure of the sun is the greatest natural drama by which we live.

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

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.

Into every empty corner, into all forgotten things and nooks, nature struggles to pour life, pouring life into the dead, life into life itself.