"Theirs is no vulgar sepulchre--green sods Are all their monument, and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared pil…"

"Hail to the land whereon we tread, Our fondest boast! The sepulchres of mighty dead, The truest hearts that ever bled…"

"On thy fair bosom, silver lake, The wild swan spreads his snowy sail, And round his breast the ripples break As down …"

"The water is calm and still below, For the winds and waves are absent there, And the sands are bright as the stars th…"

"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…"