There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

Monotony has nothing to do with a place; monotony, either in its sensation or its infliction, is simply the quality of a person. There are no dreary sights; there are only dreary sight seers.

Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.

The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.

The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.