Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

The rule is to carry as little as possible.

The forests are held cheap after the white pine has been culled out; and the explorers and hunters pray for rain only to clear theatmosphere of smoke.

What shall we think of a government to which all the truly brave and just men in the land are enemies, standing between it and those whom it oppresses? A government that pretends to be Christian and crucifies a million Christs every day!

The traveler must be born again on the road, and earn a passport from the elements.

Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.