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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

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.

It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man – social and political – and to the entire universe as a whole.

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.