One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.

Lie down among the pines for a while, then get to plain pure white love-work ... to help humanity and other mortals and the Lord.

How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.

The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

...every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.