Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
From John Burroughs
The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds - how many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
We now use the word 'nature' very much as our fathers used the word 'God.'
If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
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