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

A book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

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

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

August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.

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