Man learned to resort to the dance when he felt helpless or fragmentary, when he felt dislocated in his universe.

It is no use trying to improve on children's names for wildflowers.

In the common esteem, not only are the only good aboriginals dead ones, but all aboriginals are either sacred or contemptible according to the length of time they have been dead.

Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise. ... The cunningest hunger is hunted in turn, and what he leaves of his kill is meat for some other. That is the economy of nature, but with it all there is not sufficient account taken of the works of man. There is no scavenger that eats tin cans, and no wild thing leaves a like disfigurement on the forest floor.

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

Man is not himself only...He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources...He is the land, the lift of its mountain lines, the reach of its valleys.

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