While almost all men feel an attraction drawing them to society, few are attracted strongly to Nature. In their reaction to Naturemen appear to me for the most part, notwithstanding their arts, lower than the animals. It is not often a beautiful relation, as in the case of the animals. How little appreciation of the beauty of the landscape there is among us! We have to be told that the Greeks called the world Kosmos, Beauty, or Order, but we do not see clearly why they did so, and we esteem it at best only a curious philological fact.

We need the tonic of wildness.

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.

The gross feeder is a man in the larva state; and there are whole nations in that condition, nations without fancy or imagination,whose vast abdomens betray them.

Where there is not discernment, the behavior even of the purest soul may in effect amount to coarseness.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bone.