Why should not we, who have renounced the king's authority, have our national preserves, where no villages need be destroyed, in which the bear and panther, and some even of the hunter race, may still exist, and not be "civilized off the face of the earth," - our forests, not to hold the king's game merely, but to hold and preserve the king himself also, the lord of creation, - not for idle sport or food, but for inspiration and our own true re-creation?

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

There is a higher law affecting our relation to pines as well as to men. A pine cut down, a dead pine, is no more a pine than a dead human carcass is a man.

Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence.

The little things in life are as interesting as the big ones.

Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.

And so the seasons went rolling on into summer, as one rambles into higher and higher grass.