There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

I want nothing new, if I can have but a tithe of the old secured to me. I will spurn all wealth beside. Think of the consummate folly of attempting to go away from here! When the constant endeavor should be to get nearer and nearer here!

Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it! Is the scholastic air any advantage?

Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe.

We slander the hyena; man is the fiercest and cruelest animal.

I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit.

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.