Quotable
"One has sensed little of the real beauty of the natural world if he has not been moved to tears." Too Much Salt and Pepper‚ pg. 175One has sensed little
(Duke) "Once in while I have reached the place where peace was close at hand that I knew where to seek it at last. It was when I forget myself, and as someone said, look through nature to nature‚ as God." Eeny, Meeny, Miney, Mo and Still-Mo pg. 38Once in a while
(Duke) "You don't really find peace until you get close to Him‚ some way, some how, I wish I know." Eeny, Meeny, Miney, Mo and Still-Mo pg. 39You don't really find
"A fireplace is the supreme part of a home, I wouldn't want it to be without one. But it has an appetite that knows no end!"A fireplace is the
"Who has not stood at the glorious moment when it seems that God Himself has called him (or her) by name and directed him (or her) to an important task?" Too Much Salt and Pepper‚ pg. 218Who has not stood
"But hold on, Hi-Bub, don't let the world snatch your treasure from you. Fight for your right to love the forest, and it will never fail you." A Tippy Canoe and Canada TooBut hold on
"Love that is bestowed in compensation for some favor or blessings has selfishness mixed in!"Love that is bestowed
"How values change. A week ago these things (gas rations stamps) were more valuable to me then gold notes. Now they aren't even good wastepaper!" A Tippy Canoe and Canada Too‚ pg. 158How values change
"My inclination, after years of observation, is never to charge anything to chance in nature. It is all cause and effect. Intelligence, often a higher order then what we call reasoning, guides the people of the forest." A Tippy Canoe and Canada TooMy inclination
"One of the inexplicable things in nature, at least to our present limited understanding, is the strange faculty of instinct found in both animals and men. In men instinct has been smothered and lost in self-consciousness and, with questionable benefit at times, compromised with reason."One of the inexplicable