Here in Florida the seasons move in and out like nuns in soft clothing, making no rustle in their passing.

A dead tree, falling, made less havoc than a live one. It seemed as though a live tree went down fighting, like an animal.

Readers themselves, I think, contribute to a book. They add their own imaginations, and it is as though the writer only gave them something to work on, and they did the rest.

We cannot live without the Earth or apart from it, and something is shrivelled in a man's heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men

Garlic, like perfume, must be used with discretion and on the proper occasions.

to comfort any mortal against loneliness, one other is enough.

They were all too tightly bound together, men and women, creatures wild and tame, flowers, fruits and leaves, to ask that any one be spared. As long as the whole continued, the earth could go about its business.