We are made strong by what we overcome.

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

We are made strong by what we overcome.

[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.

In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs as effectually as it obliterates. I go into the woods, and know all that has happened. I cross the fields, and if only a mouse has visited his neighbor, the fact is chronicled.

We cannot walk through life on mountain peaks.

Nothing relieves and ventilates the mind like a resolution.