I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.

I wonder if leaves feel lonely when they see their neighbors falling?

Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

I was awakened by a tremendous earthquake, and though I hadn ever before enjoyed a storm of this sort, the strange thrilling motion could not be mistaken, and I ran out of my cabin, both glad and frightened, shouting, "A noble earthquake! A noble earthquake" feeling sure I was going to learn something.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.