I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.

When I first caught sight of (Mount Shasta) over the braided folds of the Sacramento Valley I was fifty miles away and afoot, alone and weary. Yet all my blood turned to wine, and I have not been weary since.

...therefore all childish fear must be put away.

Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.

A lifetime is so little a time that we die before we get ready to live. I should like to study at a college, but then I have to say to myself: "You will die before you can do anything else".

Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.

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