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

I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot.

I wonder if leaves feel lonely when they see their neighbors falling?

Any fool can destroy trees, they cannot run away.

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

One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books. See how willingly Nature poses herself upon photographers' plates. No earthly chemicals are so sensitive as those of the human soul.

At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.