Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.

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

Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.

Over the summit, I saw the so-called Mono desert lying dreamily silent in the thick, purple light -- a desert of heavy sun-glare beheld from a desert of ice-burnished granite.

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.

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

…their eager, childlike attention was refreshing to see as compared with the decent, deathlike apathy of weary civilized people, in whom natural curiosity has been quenched in toil and care and poor, shallow comfort.