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On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have hencefort...more

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The trees and shrubs rear white arms to the sky on every side; and where were walls and fences, we see forms stretching in frolic gambols across the d...more

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Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite ...more

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No man ever followed his genius till it misled him. Though the result were bodily weakness, yet perhaps no one can say that the consequences were to b...more

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What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

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He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.

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It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

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For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully though I never received one cent for it.

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What are these pines & these birds about? What is this pond a-doing? I must know a little more.

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When I would recreate myself I seek the darkest wood the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen most dismal swamp. I enter a swamp as a...more

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To be awake is to be alive.

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I have spent many an hour, when I was younger, floating over its surface as the zephyr willed, having paddled my boat to the middle, and lying on my b...more

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I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech tree or a yellow birch or an old acquaintance a...more

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The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

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I suppose that I have not many months to live: but of course I know nothing about it. I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regr...more