No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.

All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world's wildernesses I first should wander.

...every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.

The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.

No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.

Never while anything is left of me shall this... camp be forgotten. It has fairly grown into me, not merely as memory pictures, but as part and parcel of mind and body alike.

Going to the mountains is going home.