It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

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

The most distinctive, and perhaps the most impressive, characteristic of American scenery is its wilderness.

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.

It is a vast wilderness of rocks in a sea of light, colored and glowing like oak and maple in autumn, when the sun gold is richest

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.