“Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it”

“Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.”

“What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.”

“If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.”

“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God’s handwriting—a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower,and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.”

“The earth laughs in flowers.”

“Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.”