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

If I should be fated to walk no more with Nature, be compelled to leave all I most devoutly love in the wilderness, return to civilization and be twisted into the characterless cable of society, then these sweet, free, cumberless rovings will be as chinks and slits on life's horizon, through which I may obtain glimpses of the treasures that lie in God's wilds beyond my reach.

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".

Strange the faithless fuss made about taking a walk in the safest and pleasantest of all places, a wilderness.

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

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

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.