The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.

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

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".

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

...therefore all childish fear must be put away.

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