When You Can Do The Common Things

We Get Closer To God As We Get More Intimately And Understandingly Acquainted With The Things He Has Created. I Know Of Nothing More Inspiring Than That Of Making Discoveries For One's Self.

How Far You Go In Life Depends On Your Being Tender With The Young, Compassionate With The Aged, Sympathetic With The Striving And Tolerant Of The Weak And Strong. Because Someday In Your Life You Will Have Been All Of These.

I Wanted To Know The Name Of Every Stone And Flower And Insect And Bird And Beast. I Wanted To Know Where It Got Its Color, Where It Got Its Life - But There Was No One To Tell Me.

To Those Who Have As Yet Not Learned The Secret Of True Happiness, Which Is The Joy Of Coming Into The Closest Relationship With The Maker And Preserver Of All Things: Begin Now To Study The Little Things In Your Own Door Yard.

Reading About Nature Is Fine, But If A Person Walks In The Woods And Listens Carefully, He Can Learn More Than What Is In Books, For They Speak With The Voice Of God.