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

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.

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.

No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening - still all is Beauty!

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

Most people are on the world, not in it-- having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them-- undiffused seporate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but seporate.