Whenever man forgets that man is an animal, the result is always to make him less humane.

If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.

There are some optimists who search eagerly for the skunk cabbage which in February sometimes pushes itself up through the ice, and who call it a sign of spring. I wish that I could feel that way about it, but I do not. The truth of the matter, to me, is simply that skunk cabbage blooms in the winter time.

Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.