If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one's country, to society, and to civilization itself.

In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.

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.

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

We have not merely escaped from something but into something... We have joined the greatest of all communities, which is not that of man alone but of everything which shares with us the great adventure of being alive.

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