“All is taken from my own experience; not a rule is laid down which I have not practically tested.”

Field practice offered as the only warrant for advice · Preface, The Witchery of Archery

• Craft
• Experience
• Practice

“As for me, when I turn these leaves I hear the rustle of wild foliage and wilder wings, the songs of many birds, the babbling of innumerable brooks. Can the reader hear these by these same means? If so, my writing has not been in vain.”

Success measured by whether the page still carries the woods · Preface, Sylvan Secrets

• Nature
• Readers
• Writing

“Style is the artist's breath of life, which, with divine power, he blows into his clay and makes it a living soul in his own image.”

Form as animation rather than ornament · Essay, The Personal Note

• Art
• Creation
• Style