Going to the mountains is going home.

You know that I have not lagged behind in the work of exploring our grand wilderness, and in calling everybody to come and enjoy the thousand blessings they have to offer.

One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.

One learns that the world, though made, is yet being made; that this is still the morning of creation; that mountains long conceived are now being born, channels traced for coming rivers, basins hollowed for lakes.

I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.

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

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