“If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature....”

“I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.”

“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.”

“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.”

“It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative”

“I am in love with this world... I have tilled its soil, I have gathered its harvest, I have waited upon its seasons, and always have I reaped what I have sown. I have climbed its mountains, roamed its forests, sailed its waters, crossed its deserts, felt the sting of its frosts, the oppression of its heats, the drench of its rains, the fury of its winds, and always have beauty and joy waited upon my goings and comings.”

“One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.”