We seem to think that the earth must go through the ordeal of sheep-pasturage before it is habitable by man.

Who could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds.

Art may varnish and gild, but it can do no more.

Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable education which he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no charge is made.

Most men, it seems to me, do not care for Nature and would sell their share in all her beauty, as long as they may live, for a stated sum - many for a glass of rum. Thank God, men cannot as yet fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!

Let your walks now be a little more adventurous.

Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.