You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even read more

You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night.

I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.

I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.

The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity.

The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity.

The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.

The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.

Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.

Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower read more

The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.