There are degrees and kinds of solitude. … I know of no solitude so secure as one guarded by a spring flood; nor do the geese, who have seen more kinds and degrees of aloneness than I have.
April: Come High Water, p. 25. - A Sand County Almanac, 1949 - "April: Come High Water," "April: Draba," "April: Bur Oak," & "April:Sky Dance"