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.

The fishermen say that the "thundering of the pond" scares the fishes and prevents their biting.

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.

A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.

As a true patriot, I should be ashamed to think that Adam in paradise was more favorably situated on the whole than the backwoodsman in this country.

He listens equally to the prayers of the believer and the unbeliever.

Man needs to know but little more than a lobster in order to catch him in his traps.