Fire is the most tolerable third party

The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country, from every solitary beaver swamp and mountain-side, as soon as possible.

Whatever has not come under the sway of man is wild. In this sense original and independent men are wild - not tamed and broken by society.

It is the man determines what is said, not the words.

This world has many rings, like Saturn, and we live now on the outmost of them all. None can say deliberately that he inhabits thesame sphere, or is contemporary, with the flower which his hands have plucked, and though his feet may seem to crush it, inconceivable spaces and ages separate them, and perchance there is no danger that he will hurt it.

If Nature is our mother, then God is our father.

Some would find fault with the morning, if they ever got up early enough.. The fault find faults even in Paradise.