Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get - -people,storms, guardian angels, or sheep.

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

I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot.

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.

So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

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