Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God's mountains.

It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.

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

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.

Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.

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

The sun shines not on us but in us.