Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

It always seems to be raining harder than it really is when you look at the weather through the window.

We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.

A crowd is not necessarily company, but neither need it necessarily prevent thought or disturb peace of mind.

Many savage nations worship trees, and I really think my first feeling would be one of delight and interest rather than of surprise, if some day when I am alone in the woods one of the trees were to speak to me.