Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas

This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough

You have to beat out for yourself many mornings on the windy headlands the sense of the fact that you get the same rainbow in the cloud drift over Waban and the spray of your garden hose. And not necessarily then do you live up to it.

Death by starvation is slow.

When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of her experience.

Some think that even the ancients who lived long before the present generation, and first framed accounts of the Gods, had a similar view of nature; for they made the Oceanus and Tethys the parents of creation, and described the oath of the Gods as being by water, to which they give the name of Styx; for what is oldest is most honourable, and the most honourable thing is that by which one swears

Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind.