Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.