SaturdayJan 17, 2026
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One goes to Nature only for hints and half-truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them.... It is not so much what we see as what the thing seen suggests.
I was born with a chronic anxiety about the weather.
I see on a immense scale, and as clearly as in a demonstration in a laboratory, that good comes out of evil; that the impartiality of the Nature Providence is best; that we are made strong by what we overcome; that man is man because he is as free to do evil as to do good; that life is as free to develop hostile forms as to develop friendly; that power waits upon him who earns it; that disease, wars, the unloosened, devastating elemental forces have each and all played their part in developing and hardening man and giving him the heroic fiber.
Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it.
Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea; I rave no more gainst time or fate, For lo! my own shall come to me.
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
Literature is an investment of genius which pays dividends to all subsequent times.
A man may fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
Now is the time of the illuminated woods ... when every leaf glows like a tiny lamp.
Nature comes home to one most when he is at home; the stranger and traveler finds her a stranger and traveler also. One's own landscape comes in time to be a sort of outlying part of himself; he has sowed himself broadcast upon it, and it reflects his own moods and feelings; he is sensitive to the verge of the horizon: cut those trees, and he bleeds; mar those hills, and he suffers. How has the farmer planted himself in his fields; builded himself into his stone walls, and evoked the sympathy of the hills by his struggle! This home feeling, this domestication of nature, is important to the observer. This is the birdlime with which he catches the bird; this is the private door that admits him behind the scenes.
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter ... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
One of the hardest lessons we have to learn in this life and one that many persons never learn, is to see the divine, the celestial, the pure, in the common, the near at hand to see that heaven lies about us here in this world.
Nothing relieves and ventilates the mind like a resolution.
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is look under foot. You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
To find new things, take the path you took yesterday.
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. The longer I live the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.
To learn something new, take the path you took yesterday.
The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
How many thorns of human nature hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel and disgust us are arrested developments, calcified tendencies, buds of promise that should have lifted a branch up into the sunny day with fruit; and flowers to delight the heart of men, but now all grown hard, petrified, for want of culture and a congenial soil and climate.
What is the best thing for a stream? It is to keep moving. If it stops, it stagnates. So the best thing for a man is that which keeps the currents going the physical, the moral, and the intellectual currents. Hence the secret of happiness is something
The atmosphere of our time is fast being cleared of the fumes and deadly gases that arose during the carboniferous age of theology.
The honey-bee's great ambition is to be rich, to lay up great stores, to possess the sweet of every flower that blooms. She is more than provident. Enough will not satisfy her, she must have all she can get by hook or crook.
We cannot walk through life on mountain peaks.
A man's life may stagnate as literally as water may stagnate, and just as motion and direction are the remedy for one, so purpose and activity are the remedy for the other.
Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all that has been my religion.
How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
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