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A lunch of bread and cheese after a good walk is more enjoyable than a Lord Mayor's feast.

Any one who will sit down quietly on the grass and watch a little will be indeed surprised at the number and variety of living beings, every one with a special history of its own, every one offering endless problems of great interest.

How much more interesting would every walk in the country be, if Man would but treat other animals with kindness, so that they might approach us without fear, and we might have the constant pleasure of watching their winning ways.

Without water no landscape is complete, while overhead the clouds add beauty to the heavens themselves.

So far is a thorough love and enjoyment of travel from interfering with the love of home, that perhaps no one can thoroughly enjoy his home who does not sometimes wander away.

Fears vanish as soon as one is fairly free in the wilderness.

To the sane and free it will hardly seem necessary to cross the continent in search of wild beauty, however easy the way, for they find it in abundance wherever they chance to be.

Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.

The mountains are calling and I must go, and I will work on while I can, studying incessantly.

Every feature became more rigidly alpine, without, however, producing any chilling effect; for going to the mountains is like going home.

Remember, then, that I, at least, have warned you, that the happiness of your life, and its power, and its part and rank in earth or in heaven, depend on the way you pass your days now.

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.

Between subjection to the will of others and the virtues of self-help and self-government there is a natural incompatibility.

The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way

We classify too much and enjoy too little.

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world

Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.

Denial of the right to experiment may be fraught with serious consequences to the nation.

Our destiny in the midst of change will rest on the unchanged character of our people, and on their faith.

Discourse no more of what a good man should be; but be one.

Observe continually that all things exist in change; and keep this thought ever with you, that Nature loves nothing more than changing what things now are, and making others like them.

None other than this long brown land lays such a hold on the affections. The rainbow hills, the tender bluish mists, the luminous radiance of the spring, have the lotus charm.

Happiness demands a certain outcome, it is result reliant.

If happiness is what you’re after, then you are going to be let down frequently and be unhappy much of your time.