The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and stagnation, melody, the mystery of unknown waters, and the sweetness of Nature undisturbed by man.
William BeebeThe isness of things is well worth studying; but it is their whyness that makes life worth living.
William BeebeA first walk in any new country is one of the things which makes life on this planet worth being grateful for.
William BeebeThe beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer; but when the last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again.
William Beebe