“I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings”

“The poetry of the earth is never dead ”

“Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed”

“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature”

“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars”

“Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them”