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

Going to the mountains is going home.

The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.

It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.

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

I never saw a discontented tree.

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

So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.

The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.

It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.

We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.

As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.

The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.

This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.

In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.

The moon reminds me of how beautiful darkness is.

She is like a beautiful night. Full of stars and darkness.

I shined like the moon and stars but it just would never be enough for all you could see was darkness.

I cannot tell if it is a blessing from an old god or lovely dark art only that he holds my heart.

Love flows even within the dark from the things that shine, My darling.

And they wrapped her in darkness until she became it – Lilith.

The spikes of the cactus which grows in my heart, are alike the water lilies that only bloom in the dark.

Don’t be afraid to bloom even in the darkest of times, just like moonflower blooms in the depths of the night.