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Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?

I know now what this meant, that the bison were the gift of a good spirit and were our strength, but we should lose them, and from the same good spirit we must find another strength.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.

A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.