“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.

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

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

Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.

One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.

Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.

Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.

And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.

Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.

Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.

All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Sometimes, finding the light means you must past through the deepest darkness.

A good deed brightens a dark world.

The roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie between us.

Many things that become threatening in the dark, become welcoming when we shine a light on them.

Each one of us has the power to change the world. Shed light, and darkness disappears.

Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.

We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.