“We present freedom as sufficient in its scientific aspect, cold as ice, reasoning, deductive, clear and passionless as crystal.”

Defending freedom on rational as well as emotional grounds · Essay, Democratic Vistas

• Hope
• Truth

“Go and sit in a grove or woods, with one or more of those voiceless companions, and read the foregoing, and think.”

Inviting reflective companionship with trees · Specimen Days, The Lesson of a Tree

• Nature
• Solitude

“As if for the first time, indeed, creation noiselessly sank into and through me its placid and untellable lesson.”

Presenting contemplation as a wordless lesson received from creation · Specimen Days, Hours for the Soul

• Faith
• Nature