A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway.

Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love.

We are the prisoners of ideas.

You must elect your work; you shall take what your brains can, and drop all the rest. Only so can that amount of vital force accumulate which can make the step from knowing to doing. No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. It is a step out of a chalk circle of imbecility into fruitfulness.

The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship

A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.

In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.