“Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.”

“It made me gladsome to be getting some education it being like a big window opening.”

“It's the folks that depend on us for this and for the other that we most do miss.”

“Saddle your dreams before you ride em.”

“She had so deep a kinship with the trees, so intuitive a sympathy with leaf and flower, that it seemed as if the blood in her veins was not slow-moving human blood, but volatile sap.”

“I thought she had a good heart, though not much respectability- or maybe it was because of that.”

“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.”

“Nature: it might be the magical key to unlock a locked imagination.”

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”