I love to see that Nature is so rife with life that myriads can be afforded to be sacrificed and suffered to prey on one another; that tender organizations can be so serenely squashed out of existence like pulp, - tadpoles which herons gobble up, and tortoises and toads run over in the road; and that sometimes it has rained flesh and blood! With the liability to accident, we must see how little account is to be made of it.

Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of.

One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in.

The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind.

I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

I already, and for weeks afterward, felt my nature the coarser for this part of my woodland experience, and was reminded that ourlife should be lived as tenderly and daintily as one would pluck a flower.

A journal, is a book that shall contain a record of all your joy, your ecstasy, what you are grateful for.