"To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment."

"Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters."

"Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth."

"Just living is not enough... One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."

"There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it."

"Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool."

"I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods."

"Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence."

"We cannot command Nature except by obeying her."

"Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it."