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

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

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

“On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death. ... Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life, and that the grave has no victory, for it never fights.”

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”

“This is Nature's own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.”

“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”