Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.

To the lover of pure wildness Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

The axe and saw are insanely busy, chips are flying thick as snowflakes, and every summer thousands of acres of priceless forests, with their underbrush, soil, springs, climate, scenery, and religion, are vanishing away in clouds of smoke, while, except in the national parks, not one forest guard is employed.

God has to nearly kill us sometimes, to teach us lessons.

...every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.

Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.