Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.

You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.

Real power is measured by how much you can let things be.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.

As I love nature, as I love singing birds, and gleaming stubble, and flowing rivers, and morning and evening, and summer and winter, I love thee, my Friend.

When the first light dawned on the earth, and the birds awoke, and the brave river was heard rippling confidently seaward, and the nimble early rising wind rustled the oak leaves about our tent, all people, having reinforced their bodies and their souls with sleep, and cast aside doubt and fear, were invited to unattempted adventures.

In Adam's fall We sinned all. In the new Adam's rise, We shall all reach the skies.