“The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship”

“Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?”

“There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet.”

“The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.”

“A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it withou...”

“In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. Nature says, -- he is my creature, and maugre all his impertinent griefs, he shall be glad with me”

“He never cried, not even when his alarm went off. Swaddled in his Moses basket, wires trailing out the bottom, his monitor flashing green, green, green, his entire four-pound body motionless except...”

“From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few. ”

“Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.”

“Naught but leaves brushed in the wind, stemming from the forest behind my house. Oh, and of course, the wildlife seized every chance to tell the stars who they were; they hooted, howled, and growle...”

“I dont have a philosophy: I have senses...If I talk about Nature, its not because I know what it is,But because I love it, and thats why I love it,Because when you love you never know what you love...”

“I have been wrongly accused; and you, ma'am, and everybody else, will now think me wicked.""We shall think you what you prove yourself to be, my child. Continue to act as a good girl, and you will ...”

“Peace be upon you, for you have persevered! How excellent, then, this fulfilment in the hereafter!”

“she ran away in her sleep and dreamed of paradise”

“Maybe it takes tragedy to create paradise.”