In God's wildness lies the hope of the world.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

The most distinctive, and perhaps the most impressive, characteristic of American scenery is its wilderness.

I am very blessed. The Valley is full of people, but they do not annoy me. I revolve in pathless places and in higher rocks than the world and his ribbony wife can reach.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

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