There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

In our hearts those of us who know anything worth knowing know that in March a new year begins, and if we plan any new leaves, it will be when the rest of Nature is planning them too.

Though we face the facts of sex we are more reluctant than ever to face the fact of death or the crueler facts of life, either biological or social.

The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.

The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.

Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in all these things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly as the need for both.

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.