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

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 gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

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

Going to the mountains is going home.

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.

Some people miss flesh as a drunkard misses his dram.