Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

God never made an ugly landscape. All that sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild.

Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.

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

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

One learns that the world, though made, is yet being made; that this is still the morning of creation; that mountains long conceived are now being born, channels traced for coming rivers, basins hollowed for lakes.