Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

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

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and me…

Lie down among the pines for a while then get to plain pure white love-work to help humanity and other mortals.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

If any pale student, glued to his desk, here seek an apology for a way of life whose natural fruits is that pallid and emasculate scholarship of which New Engl…

'Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclined.