No accident of environment or circumstance need cut us off from nature. ... It does not matter how shut in we are. Opportunity for wide experience is of small acccount in this as in other things; it is depth that brings understanding and life.

Every time I meet a tree, if I am truly awake, I stand in awe before it. I listen to its voice, a silent sermon moving me to the depths, touching my heart, and stirring up within my soul a yearning to give my all.

If you know much about your work - why you work, how you work, your aims - you are probably not a poet.

Who can say which is the greater sign of creative power, the sun with its planet system swinging with governed impetus to some incalculable end, or the gold sallow catkin with its flashing system of little flies?

Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.

Green is the fresh emblem of well founded hopes. In blue the spirit can wander, but in green it can rest.

Give me good digestion, Lord, And also something to digest; but where and how that something comes I leave to Thee, who knoweth best.