…their eager, childlike attention was refreshing to see as compared with the decent, deathlike apathy of weary civilized people, in whom natural curiosity has been quenched in toil and care and poor, shallow comfort.

Nature had gathered her choicest treasures , to draw her lovers into close and confiding communion with her

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

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.

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!

God cannot save them from fools.

Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God's mountains.