Anything that can go wrong, will.
The things we fear about poetry are the things that are good about poetry..
There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still..
You are richer for doing things..
I'm wholehearted about whatever I do..
The next day the Indian told me their name for this light,--artoosoq',--and on my inquiring concerning the will-o'-the-wisp, and the like phenomena, ….
When we enter the landscape to learn something, we are obligated, I think, to pay attention rather than constantly to pose questions. To approach the….
Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and as we approach the period….
Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal; yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spas….
The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still..
The best religion is the most tolerant..
When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished..
I am in love with this world . . . I have climbed its mountains, roamed its forests, sailed its waters, crossed its deserts, felt the sting of its fr….
It would indeed be a great delusion, if we stated that those sports of Nature [we find] enclosed in rocks are there by chance or by some vague creati….
I had rather be guillotined than a guillotiner..
Dovie'andi se tovya sagain!.
I still feel like I'm 19. We're old now!.
My worth to God in public is what I am in private..
Live while you live, when you're dead you're dead..
Everything I do, I do for love..
Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear..