"We are an Island.  Every soldier that wants to go anywhere out of England - a sailor has got to carry him there on his back."

"Perhaps you see big trees and little trees and think that big trees are older than little trees. You also might notice that there are more little trees than big trees, and so not every little tree gro…"

"If one could stand on the peak of snow-capped Mount Hood and from that lofty eminence swing a powerful glass...into the density of the forests...until every living creature would pass in review, it wo…"

"This force of nature, this will, continues to exist when "we" die, and in fact it does already exist in many other forms and ways. This force is active in me, as it is active in you and every other li…"

"Thus the ideal of democracy is reached at last: it has become a psychic impossibility for a gentleman to hold office under the Federal Union, save by a combination of miracles that must tax the resour…"