“Nothing truly wild is unclean.”

But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.

In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.

Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.

Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.

Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.

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

Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

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

There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.

But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.

One must labor for beauty as for bread.

As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.

As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.

Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

Going to the mountains is going home.

We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.

One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.

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

Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.