“sometimes, silence can be very loud”

“Wait here, Miz Meg, and we'll holler when we're undressed and under the covers. We know it don't bother you seein' our backsides since you're a widow and all, but it'd sure bother us even though yo...”

“When youre young, you wish for things in the future, but when you grow old you wish for things from the past”

“When you’re young, you wish for things in the future, but when you grow old … you wish for things from the past”

“When man will return to nature, nature will return to him.”

“The sky is an enormous man.”

“When the full-grown poet came,Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unr...”