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

“When we tug at a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world.”

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

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

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

“If for a moment you are inclined to regard these taluses as mere draggled, chaotic dumps, climb to the top of one of them, and run down without any haggling, puttering hesitation, boldly jumping from boulder to boulder with even speed. You will then find your feet playing a tune, and quickly discover the music and poetry of these magnificent rock piles -- a fine lesson; and all Nature's wildness tells the same story -- the shocks and outbursts of earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers, roaring, thundering waves and floods, the silent uprush of sap in plants, storms of every sort -- each and all are the orderly beauty-making love-beats of Nature's heart.”

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”