When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

God never made an ugly landscape. All that sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild.

One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.

I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news

Nature had gathered her choicest treasures , to draw her lovers into close and confiding communion with her