We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is always a best way of doing everything.
We animate what we can see, and we see only what we animate.
Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.
It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.