There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.

As for my own business, even that kind of surveying which I could do with most satisfaction my employers do not want. They would prefer that I should do my work coarsely and not too well, ay, not well enough. When I observe that there are different ways of surveying, my employer commonly asks which will give him the most land, not which is most correct.

Man makes very much such a nest for his domestic animals, of withered grass and fodder, as the squirrels and many other wild creatures do for themselves.

If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself.

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

In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by their weight again bent down and broke their tender limbs.

Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.