"I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior."

"Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong."

"Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing."

"It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book."

"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset."

"I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that...

"I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes."

"A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken."

"The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful."

"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine."