The power of imagination makes us infinite.

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

Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.

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

Lie down among the pines for a while, then get to plain pure white love-work ... to help humanity and other mortals and the Lord.

A lifetime is so little a time that we die before we get ready to live. I should like to study at a college, but then I have to say to myself: "You will die before you can do anything else".

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.