“Time is the river. We are the islands. Time washes around us and flows away and with it flow fragments of our lives. So, little by little, each island shrinks.But where, who can say, down the long ...”

“Nature is shy and noncommittal in a crowd. To learn her secrets, visit her alone or with a single friend, at most. Everything evades you, everything hides, even your thoughts escape you, when you w...”

“If man can take care of man, nature can take care of the rest.”

“For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.”

“Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.”

“The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.”

“Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.”

“Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.”

“It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.”