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

Nothing truly wild is unclean.

Ink cannot tell the glow that lights me at this moment in turning to the mountains. I feel strong [enough] to leap Yosemite walls at a bound.

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!

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get - -people,storms, guardian angels, or sheep.

I was awakened by a tremendous earthquake, and though I hadn ever before enjoyed a storm of this sort, the strange thrilling motion could not be mistaken, and I ran out of my cabin, both glad and frightened, shouting, "A noble earthquake! A noble earthquake" feeling sure I was going to learn something.