Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

The last days of this glacial winter are not yet past; we live in 'creation's dawn.' The morning stars still sing together, and the world, though made, is still being made and becoming more beautiful every day.

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

Over the summit, I saw the so-called Mono desert lying dreamily silent in the thick, purple light -- a desert of heavy sun-glare beheld from a desert of ice-burnished granite.

In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.