When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a mall?

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Going from--toward; it is the history of every one of us.

The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel.

No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher.

We should impart our courage and not our despair.

Nature has taken more care than the fondest parent for the education and refinement of her children. Consider the silent influencewhich flowers exert, no less upon the ditcher in the meadow than the lady in the bower. When I walk in the woods, I am reminded that a wise purveyor has been there before me; my most delicate experience is typified there.