“Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.”

“I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.”

“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!”

“The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.”

“The world's big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”

“We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.”