In the planting of the seeds of most trees, the best gardeners do no more than follow Nature, though they may not know it.

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows.

Shall a man not have his spring as well as the plants?

In an ancient and dead language, any recognition of living nature attracts us. These are such sentences as were written while grass grew and water ran. It is no small recommendation when a book will stand the test of mere unobstructed sunshine and daylight.

I am a citizen of the world first, and of this country at a later and more convenient hour.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.