I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds.

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.

Before the bud swells, before the grass springs, before the plough is started, comes the sugar harvest. It is sequel of the bitter frost; a sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter.

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

Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world.