On the Buffalo Hunt

"Nature is the true revelation of the Deity to man. The nearest green field is the inspired page from which you may read all that it is needful for you to know."

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Stark Munro Letters

Serenity

"Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon Like a magician extended his golden want o'er the landscape; Trinkling vapors arose; and sky and water and forest Seemed all on fire at the touch, and melted and mingled together..."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in Evangeline

Contemplation

"Really it is very wholesome exercise, this trying to make one's words represent one's thoughts, instead of merely looking to their effect on others."

Elizabeth Gaskell in "Cousin Phillis"