Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.
The sun the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they...
You can't be suspicious of a tree or accuse a bird or a squirrel of...
Birds have wings they're free they can fly where they want when they want....
Breathless we flung us on a windy hill Laughed in the sun and kissed the...
For myself I hold no preferences among flowers so long as they are wild...
Nature is wont to hide herself.
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring you will vainly look for fruit on...
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die...
Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
For every person who has ever lived there has come at last a spring he will...
The snow itself is lonely or if you prefer self-sufficient. There is no...
The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its...
A light wind swept over the corn and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be...
I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it...
I knew of course that trees and plants had roots stems bark branches and...
A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire in magnitude at least...
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then...
Love thou the rose yet leave it on its stem.
Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.
Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.
I believe that if one always looked at the skies one would end up with wings.
Nature is so powerful so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your...
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is...
Yosemite Valley to me is always a sunrise a glitter of green and golden...
Knowing trees I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass I can...
It is written on the arched sky it looks out from every star. It is the...
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life and behind it our scientific...
We may brave human laws but we cannot resist natural ones.
Ah summer what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to...
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
Nature to be commanded must be obeyed.
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed but nature does not depend on...
