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.

A lifetime is so little a time that we die before we get ready to live. I should like to study at a college, but then I have to say to myself: "You will die before you can do anything else".

Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.

In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.

Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.

God has to nearly kill us sometimes, to teach us lessons.

Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally.