Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night.

The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Nature does nothing uselessly.

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

Nature is commanded by obeying her.