Nature is shy and noncommittal in a crowd. To learn her secrets, visit her alone or with a single friend, at most. Everything evades you, everything hides, even your thoughts escape you, when you walk in a crowd.

If man can take care of man, nature can take care of the rest.

For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.

Even the lifelong traveler knows but an infinitesimal portion of the Earth's surface. Those who have written best about the land and its wild inhabitants...have often been stay-at-home naturalists...concentrating their attention and affection on a relatively small area.

How many beautiful trees gave their lives that today's scandal should, without delay, reach a million readers.