All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain withi its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened pines; Odor of basswood upon a mountain slope, A scene beloved of bees; Silence of water above a sunken tree: The pure serene of memory of one man,-- A ripple widening from a single stone Winding around the waters of the world.
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Nature encourages no looseness, pardons no errors.
Nature encourages no looseness, pardons no errors.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with read more
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often read more
The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.
Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is read more
Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through read more
In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.
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.
