“Nature and books belong to all who see them.”

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

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

“The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson”

“It could be said that a single person has written all the books in the world such central unity is in them that they are undeniably the work of a single all-knowing master.”

“People go out to look at sunrises and sunsets who do not recognize their own, quietly and happily, but know that it is foreign to them. As they do by books, so they quote the sunset and the star, and do not make them theirs. Worse yet, they live as foreigners in a world of truth, and quote thoughts, and thus disown them. Quotation confesses inferiority”

“The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship”