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It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day’s unity.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me – I am happy.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

O’ What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.