"The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do."

"My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes] has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful."

"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."

"I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets."

"Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day."

"Sharks have been swimming the oceans unchallenged for thousands of years; chances are, the species that roams corporate waters will prove just as hardy."

"Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations."

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."

"If I thought I was going to die tomorrow, I should nevertheless plant a tree today."

"The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life."