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

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.

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

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.

Strange the faithless fuss made about taking a walk in the safest and pleasantest of all places, a wilderness.