“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.”

Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.

I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.

Nothing dollarable is safe.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.

Nothing truly wild is unclean.

Nothing truly wild is unclean.

Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.

The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.

Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.

Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.

On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.

The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.

Had I listened to my agent, I’d be running around in tights, climbing buildings and stuff.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.

Before my mother was a King, she climbed trees and wrestled with boys. And won. Even as a child, Coretta Scott demonstrated that her gender would not deter her success, nor did it detract from her strength.

When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.

As I leave my competition respirator style, climb the ladder to success escalator style.

Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.

I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.