Then, again, how annoying to be told it is only five miles to the next place when it is really eight or ten!
We are made strong by what we overcome.
Nature comes home to one most when one is at home. The stranger and traveler finds her a stranger and traveler also.
If the October days were a cordial like the sub-acids of fruit, these are a tonic like the wine of iron. Drink deep or be careful how you taste this December vintage. The first sip may chill, but a full draught warms and invigorates.
We have produced some good walkers and saunterers, and some noted climbers; but as a staple recreation, as a daily practice, the mass of the people dislike and despise walking.
O bluebird, welcome back again, Thy azure coat and ruddy vest, Are hues that April loveth best...
I think rain is as necessary to the mind as to vegetation. My very thoughts become thirsty, and crave the moisture.
One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking.
Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times.
I still find each day too short...
I was born with a chronic anxiety about the weather.
Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world.
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.
Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth.
If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.