“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ”

“Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does”

“Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.”

“For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver”

“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. ”

“The poetry of the earth is never dead ”