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.

I am very blessed. The Valley is full of people, but they do not annoy me. I revolve in pathless places and in higher rocks than the world and his ribbony wife can reach.

A lifetime is so little a time that we die before we get ready to live. I should like to study at a college, but then I have to say to myself: "You will die before you can do anything else".

I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.

I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

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