One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books. See how willingly Nature poses herself upon photographers' plates. No earthly chemicals are so sensitive as those of the human soul.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!

...full of God's thoughts, a place of peace and safety amid the most exalted grandeur and enthusiastic action, a new song, a place of beginnings abounding in first lessons of life, mountain building, eternal, invincible, unbreakable order; with sermons in stone, storms, trees, flowers, and animals brimful with humanity.

Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

But to gain a perfect view, one must go yet further, over a curving brow to a slight shelf on the extreme brink.