Green, the color of growth, or surgent life, enwraps the land. New green, still as individual as the plants themselves. Cool green, which will merge ….

A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination..

As I stood and watched the mists slowly rising this morning I wondered what view was more beautiful than this..

I grew up in those years when the Old West was passing and the New West was emerging. It was a time when we still heard echoes and already saw shadow….

He who walks may see and understand. You can study all America from one hilltop, if your eyes are open and your mind is willing to reach. But first y….

If you ever wondered why fishing is probably the most popular sport in this country, watch that boy beside on the water and you will learn. If you ar….

There are some things, but not too many, toward which the countryman knows he must be properly respectful if he would avoid pain, sickness and injury….

Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change, and change is the basic law..

A frontier is never a place; it is a time and a way of life..

Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him..

The longer I live and the more I read, the more certain I become that the real poems about spring aren't written on paper. They are written in the ba….

[The Christmas story] is as simple as was the Man himself and His teaching. SA simple as the Sermon on the Mount which still remains as the ultimate ….

Strip the hills, drain the boglands, and you create flood conditions inevitably. Yet that is what we have been doing for years..

Any river is really the summation of a whole valley. It shapes not only the land but the life and even the culture of that valley. To think of any ri….

Two sounds of autumn are unmistakable...the hurrying rustle of crisp leaves blown along the street...by a gusty wind, and the gabble of a flock of mi….

The hush comes with the deepening of Autumn; but it comes gradually. Our ears are attuned to it, day by quieter day. But even now, if one awakens in ….

In a painful time of my life I went often to a wooded hillside where May apples grew by the hundreds, and I thought the sourness of their fruit had a….

There are no idealists in the plant world and no compassion. The rose and the morning glory know no mercy. Bindweed, the morning glory, will quickly ….

October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen..

There is a leisure about walking, no matter what pace you set, that lets down the tension..

Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity ends. Ants keepon digging. Most pe….