Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.
Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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!
By forces seemingly antagonistic and destructive Nature accomplishes her beneficent designs – now a flood of fire, now a flood of ice, now a flood of water; and again in the fullness of time an outburst of organic life...
Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
Winds are advertisements of all they touch, however much or little we may be able to read them; telling their wanderings even by their scents alone.
The mountains are fountains not only of rivers and fertile soil, but of men.
One learns that the world, though made, is yet being made; that this is still the morning of creation; that mountains long conceived are now being born, channels traced for coming rivers, basins hollowed for lakes...
Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go; for the mountains are fountains – beginning places, however related to sources beyond mortal ken.
Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
I will follow my instincts, and be myself for good or ill.
Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
In the eternal youth of Nature, you may renew your own.
Go quietly alone, no harm will befall you.
No words will ever describe the exquisite beauty and charm of this mountain park – Nature’s landscape garden at once tenderly beautiful and sublime. No wonder it draws nature-lovers from all over the world.
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.
How infinitely superior to our physical senses are those of the mind!