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

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.

I am glad that the country world...retains a power to use our English tongue. It is a part of its sense of reality, of its vocabulary of definite terms, and of its habit of earthly common sense. I find this country writing an excellent corrective of the urban vocabulary of abstractions and of the emotion disguised as thinking which abstractions and humbug have loosed upon the world. May there always be such things as a door, a milk pail, and a loaf of bread, and words to do them honor.

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

The quality of life, which in the ardour of spring was personal and sexual, becomes social in midsummer.

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

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.