If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply for waiting.

Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question "Why?

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

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

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.

August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.

We need some contact with the things we sprang from. We need nature at least as a part of the context of our lives. Without cities we cannot be civilized. Without nature, without wilderness even, we are compelled to renounce an important part of our heritage.