In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

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.

Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.

Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.