“...every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.”

“In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.”

“Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.”

“I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!”

“There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.”

“C. albus...I think the very loveliest of all the lily family,- a spotless soul, plant saint, that every one must love and so be made better. It puts the wildest mountaineer on his good behavior. With this plant the whole world would seem rich though non other existed.”

“In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others”