It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see - i.e. compare it to, something worse or better, that determines whether you are respective….

We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wreck….

This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore..

We can conceive of nothing more fair than something which we have experienced..

Those services which the community will most readily pay for, it is most disagreeable to render..

Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots..

What do the botanists know? Our lives should go between the lichen and the bark. The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind. We are still bei….

Though my life is low, if my spirit looks upward habitually at an elevated angle, it is as if it were redeemed. When the desire to be better than we ….

It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work..

Then at night the general stillness is more impressive than any sound, but occasionally you hear the note of an owl farther or nearer in the woods, a….

All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant..

Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him..

Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where i….

One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living..

The earth I tread on is not a dead inert mass. It is a body, has a spirit; is organic and fluid to the influence of its spirit and to whatever partic….

I love to see that Nature is so rife with life that myriads can be afforded to be sacrificed and suffered to prey on one another; that tender organiz….

What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind..

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?.

It is not enough that our life is an easy one. We must live on the stretch, retiring to our rest like soldiers on the eve of a battle, looking forwar….

If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth..

Bread may not always nourish us; but it always does us good, it even takes stiffness out of our joints, and makes us supple and buoyant, when we knew….