Nature is shy and noncommittal in a crowd. To learn her secrets, visit her alone or with a single friend, at most. Everything evades you, everything ….

If I were to choose the sights, the sounds, the fragrances I most would want to see and hear and smell--among all the delights of the open world--on ….

Better a thousand times even a swiftly fading, ephemeral moment of life than the epoch-long unconsciousness of the stone..

Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never again will be; what is is change..

The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues--self-restraint. Why can….

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web..

The seasons, like greater tides, ebb and flow across the continents. Spring advances up the United States at the average rate of about fifteen miles….

If man can take care of man, nature can take care of the rest..

It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so long as it makes you feel good, as it is not to care how you got your money as lo….

To the lost man, to the pioneer penetrating a new country, to the naturalist who wishes to see the wild land at its wildest, the advice is always the….

Our minds, as well as our bodies, have need of the out-of-doors. Our spirits, too, need simple things, elemental things, the sun and the wind and the….

For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm..

For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace..

The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues - self-restraint..

For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad..

It is morally as bad not to care whether anything is true or not..

The world's favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May..

Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow..

Looking at life through the eyes of a Daddy long legs: Imagine walking on legs so long you could cover a mile in fifty strides! Imagine looking to ei….

How sad would be November if we had no knowledge of the spring!.

To those whom the tree, the birds, the wildflowers represent only "locked-up dollars" have never known or really seen these things..