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.

I do not know who sings my songs / Before they are sung by me.

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

The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.

I am not sure that God always knows who are his great men; he is so very careless of what happens to them while they live.

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.

Ride your emotions as the shallop rides the waves; don't get upset among them. There are people who enjoy getting swamped emotionally, just as, incredibly, there are people who enjoy getting drunk.