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

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

No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening - still all is Beauty!

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

The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.