In the wilderness is the salvation of the world.

Invariably our best nights were those when it rained.

But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its attractions, and becomes a very centre of civilization to you: "Home is home, be it never so homely."

The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist. The purest science is still biographical. Nothing will dignify and elevate science while it is sundered so wholly from the moral life of its devotee.

Nothing can be more useful to a man than a determination not to be hurried.

For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labour of my hands, and I found, that by working about six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.