"The more there is of mind in your solitary employments, the more dignity there is in your character."

"Our Nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white—separate and unequal."

"The wilderness begins at the edge of my body, at the edge of my consciousness, and extends to the edge of the univers…"

"I had always been aware that the Universe is sad; everything in it, animate or inanimate, the wild creatures, the sto…"

"This is not a man who sits down to "write a poem"; rather, some burden of understanding and feeling, some need to kno…"

"The ability to imagine relations is one of the most indispensable conditions of all precise thinking. No subject can …"

"Man does not dwell at the centre of things, but is the denizen of an obscure and tiny speck of cosmical matter quite …"

"In a very deep sense all human science is but the increment of the power of the eye, and all human art is the increme…"

"The United States—bounded on the north by the Aurora Borealis, on the south by the precession of the equinoxes, on th…"

"I feel like it gave me an opportunity to give back to the country, and it introduced me to the strength of the countr…"