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

It may not be easy, life isn't easy, but dreams keep you alive.

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

I was awakened by a tremendous earthquake, and though I hadn ever before enjoyed a storm of this sort, the strange thrilling motion could not be mistaken, and I ran out of my cabin, both glad and frightened, shouting, "A noble earthquake! A noble earthquake" feeling sure I was going to learn something.

Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.

Some people miss flesh as a drunkard misses his dram.

Most people are on the world, not in it-- having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them-- undiffused seporate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but seporate.