“This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore.”

“You must converse much with the field and the woods if you would imbibe such health into your mind and spirit as you covet for your body”

“Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.”

“Open all your pores and bathe in all the tides of nature, in all her streams and oceans, at all seasons.”

“Every child begins the world again, to some extent, and loves to stay outdoors, even in wet and cold. It plays house, as well as horse, having an instinct for it...At last we know not what it is to live in the open air, and our lives are domestic in more senses than we think.”

“Be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state...”

“Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.”