Nature had gathered her choicest treasures , to draw her lovers into close and confiding communion with her

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

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

Nothing truly wild is unclean.

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.

I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.

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