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

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.

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.

When ‘I’ replaced with ‘We’, even the illness becomes wellness.

True love has the power of coming back.

Fame and fortune, how empty they can be.

It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

When you’re right, nobody remembers. When you’re wrong, nobody forgets.

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.

Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.