As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can".

It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.

One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.

Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.

Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.

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

Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally.