Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.

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".

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

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

Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God's mountains.

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.