The Grand Canyon is carven deep by the master hand; it is the gulf of silence, widened in the desert; it is all time inscribing the naked rock; it is…

- Donald C. Peattie

No matter how widely you have travelled, you haven't seen the world if you have failed to look into the human hearts that inhabit it.

- Donald C. Peattie

The last fling of winter is over ... The earth, the soil itself, has a dreaming quality about it. It is warm now to the touch; it has come alive; i…

- Donald C. Peattie

I have often started off on a walk in the state called mad-mad in the sense of sore-headed, or mad with tedium or confusion; I have set forth dull, n…

- Donald C. Peattie

What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place.

- Donald C. Peattie

A thing is either alive or it isn’t; there is nothing that is almost alive. There is but the remotest possibility of the origin of life by spontaneou…

- Donald C. Peattie

A word, a smile, and the stranger at your elbow may become an interesting friend. All through life we deny ourselves stimulating fellowship because …

- Donald C. Peattie

Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.

- Donald C. Peattie

All the great naturalists have been habitual walkers, for no laboratory, no book, car, train or plane takes the place of honest footwork for this cal…

- Donald C. Peattie