One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.

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

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".

…their eager, childlike attention was refreshing to see as compared with the decent, deathlike apathy of weary civilized people, in whom natural curiosity has been quenched in toil and care and poor, shallow comfort.

Any fool can destroy trees, they cannot run away.

The most distinctive, and perhaps the most impressive, characteristic of American scenery is its wilderness.

No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening - still all is Beauty!