You are in a partnership with all other human beings, not a contest to be judged better than some and worse than others.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing.
Encourage, lift and strengthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us all. For we are connected, one and all.
One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains.
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness.
I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he’s destroying is this God he’s worshiping.
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.