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And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, read more
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, read more
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
 See one promontory (said Socrates of old) one mountain, one sea, 
one river, and see all.  
 See one promontory (said Socrates of old) one mountain, one sea, 
one river, and see all. 
There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and read more
Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to read more
In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.
When chill November's surly blast make fields and forest bare.
When chill November's surly blast make fields and forest bare.