It's easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other Side you don't need trunks.

It is somethingit can be everything-to have found a fellow bird with whom you can sit among the rafters while the drinking and boasting and reciting and fighting go on below.

Expose a child to a particular environment at this susceptible time and he will perceive in the shapes of that environment until he dies.

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... so that never again can we have the chance to see ourselves single, separate, vertical and individual in the world, part of the environment of trees and rocks and soil, part of the natural world and competent to belong in it.

Have a chance to create a society to match its scenery.

The perfect weather of Indian Summer lengthened and lingered, warm sunny days were followed by brisk nights with Halloween a presentiment in the air.