A little pure wildness is the one great present want, both of men and sheep.

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

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.

...every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.

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

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing