Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe.

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.

You cannot perceive beauty but with a serene mind.

The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes up some air in a spacious apartment, and warms that, instead of robbing himself, makes that his bed, in which he can move about divested of more cumbrous clothing, maintain a kind of summer in the midst of winter, and by means of windows even admit the light and with a lamp lengthen out the day.

Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it.

Open all your pores and bathe in all the tides of nature, in all her streams and oceans, at all seasons.

The opening of large tracts by the ice-cutters commonly causes a pond to break up earlier; for the water, agitated by the wind, even in cold weather, wears away the surrounding ice.