My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the oratorios, the operas in nature.

Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.

If some are prosecuted for abusing children, others deserve to be prosecuted for maltreating the face of nature committed to their care.

I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor.

The first pleasant days of spring come out like a squirrel and go in again.

This generation has come into the world fatally late for some enterprises. Go where we will on the surface of things, men have been there before us.... But the lives of men, though more extended laterally in their range, are still as shallow as ever.

Every tree sends its fibres forth in search of the Wild. The cities import it at any price. Men plow and sail for it. From the forest and wilderness come the tonics and barks which brace mankind.