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.

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

One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.

...full of God's thoughts, a place of peace and safety amid the most exalted grandeur and enthusiastic action, a new song, a place of beginnings abounding in first lessons of life, mountain building, eternal, invincible, unbreakable order; with sermons in stone, storms, trees, flowers, and animals brimful with humanity.

The sun shines not on us but in us.

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