God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

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

The axe and saw are insanely busy, chips are flying thick as snowflakes, and every summer thousands of acres of priceless forests, with their underbrush, soil, springs, climate, scenery, and religion, are vanishing away in clouds of smoke, while, except in the national parks, not one forest guard is employed.

God has to nearly kill us sometimes, to teach us lessons.

It may not be easy, life isn't easy, but dreams keep you alive.

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

But to gain a perfect view, one must go yet further, over a curving brow to a slight shelf on the extreme brink.