Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.
Everybody loses the thing that made them. It's even how it's supposed to be in nature. The brave men stay and watch it happen. They don't run.
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
The water in the stream may have changed many times, but the reflection of the moon and the stars remains the same.
A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.
Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.
I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.