We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy.

The wildest dreams of wild men, even, are not the less true, though they may not recommend themselves to the sense which is most common among Englishmen and Americans to-day. It is not every truth that recommends itself to the common sense. Nature has a place for the wild clematis as well as for the cabbage. Some expressions of truth are reminiscent,--others merely sensible, as the phrase is,--others prophetic.

I think that Nature meant kindly when she made our brothers few. However, my voice is still for peace.

Where the most beautiful wild flowers grow, there mans spirit is fed and poets grow.

The earth I tread on is not a dead inert mass. It is a body, has a spirit; is organic and fluid to the influence of its spirit and to whatever particle of the spirit is in me.

We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us, like the grass which confesses the influence of the slightest dew that falls on it; and did not spend our time in atoning for the neglect of past opportunities, which we call doing our duty.

I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which I am acquainted.