Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.