Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.

The whole of the day should not be daytime; there should be one hour, if not more, which the day did not bring forth.

I see less difference between a city and a swamp than formerly.

By a conscious effort of the mind we can stand aloof from actions and their consequences; and all things, good and bad, go by us like a torrent.

Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.

Give me a Wildness whose glance no civilization can endure.

I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home.