The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence.

Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem.... it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description.

There are few places in England where you can get so much wildness and desolation of sea and sandhills, wood, green marsh and grey saltings as at Wells in Norfolk.

We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily it is as if we didn't know and didn't believe.

There are many Green Dragons in this world of wayside inns, even as there are many White Harts, Red Lions, Silent Women and other incredible things.

Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.

Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.

Of all the people I have ever known you are the only one I don't know.

In going back we must take our present selves with us: the mind has taken a different colour, and this is thrown back upon our past.

You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.

My feathered friends were so much to me that I am constantly tempted to make this sketch of my first years a book about birds and little else.

I welcome all butterflies into my heart because that feeling is a constant reminder of how alive and full of love I truly am.

You will never be a leader in any area of your life if you are not a reader in those areas of life.

...and as a result yet today we are unable to distinguish between sympathy and selfishness.

Since the Earth is finite, and we will have to stop expanding sometime, should we do it before or after nature's diversity is gone?

Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.

No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.

Every man in a bank hates what the bank does and yet the bank does it.

I think redemption is about righting a wrong, and in that pursuit it's about trying. You can stumble, you can make mistakes, but it's about trying to do the right thing.

If you give people unlimited time and money, they'll do things the same old way. But if they have to achieve the goal in a brief time, they'll either give up or try something new.

The hill pines were sighing, O'ercast and chill was the day; A mist in the valley lying Blotted the pleasant May.