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.

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.

Never while anything is left of me shall this... camp be forgotten. It has fairly grown into me, not merely as memory pictures, but as part and parcel of mind and body alike.

Men use care in purchasing a horse, and are neglectful in choosing friends.

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

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.

All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world's wildernesses I first should wander.