“Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books . . . ”

“Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.”

“I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.”

“Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps full the dinner pail is valuable.”

“God is going to reveal to us things He never revealed before if we put our hands in His. No books ever go into my laboratory. The thing I am to do and the way of doing it are revealed to me. I never have to grope for methods. The method is revealed to me the moment I am inspired to create something new. Without God to draw aside the curtain I would be helpless.”

“Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied.”

“We have become ninety-nine percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.”