Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

In fact, the United States is building up its trident nuclear sub fleet in the Pacific, based at Bangor, Washington to build up its capabilities to wage nuclear war.

[Theodore Roosevelt] was a naturalist on the broadest grounds, uniting much technical knowledge with knowledge of the daily lives and habits of all forms of wild life. He probably knew tenfold more natural history than all the presidents who had preceded him, and, I think one is safe in saying, more human history also.

I think rain is as necessary to the mind as to vegetation. My very thoughts become thirsty, and crave the moisture.

In the order of nature we may behold the ways of the Eternal.

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.

Now is the time of the illuminated woods ... when every leaf glows like a tiny lamp.