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.
The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I’ll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I’ll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can.
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.