A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

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

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

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

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

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

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

Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.