Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.

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.

So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.

The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.

What is worthwhile in life? I think it is worth living and dreaming. If you don't you may be dead anyhow - inside.

In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.

It is a vast wilderness of rocks in a sea of light, colored and glowing like oak and maple in autumn, when the sun gold is richest