“How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!”

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.

Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.

The sun shines not on us but in us.

We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.

The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.

But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.

In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.

Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.

Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.

Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.

In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.

Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.

But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.

Stress blind you with your blessings.

Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.

I don’t wish to be without my brains, tho’ they doubtless interfere with a blind faith which would be very comfortable.

Everybody’s blind when the view’s amazing.

It is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering – only expensive – blind, faint-hearted, doubting world.

Everyone has the right to run his own life- even if you’re heading for a crash. What I’m against is blind flying.

People say love is blind because they do not know what love is. I say unto you, only love has eyes; other than love, everything is blind.

Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private revelation.