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Every feature became more rigidly alpine, without, however, producing any chilling effect; for going to the mountains is like going home.

After listening to it in all kinds of winds, night and day, season after season, I think I could approximate to my position on the mountains by this pine-music alone.

Standing here in the deep, brooding silence all the wilderness seems motionless, as if the work of creation were done.

As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but Nature's sources never fail.

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

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

Nowhere will you see the majestic operations of nature more clearly revealed beside the frailest, most gentle and peaceful things.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity

To the sane and free it will hardly seem necessary to cross the continent in search of wild beauty, however easy the way, for they find it in abundance wherever they chance to be.

Fears vanish as soon as one is fairly free in the wilderness.

Thousands of God's wild blessings will search you and soak you as if you were sponge, and the big days will go by uncounted.

Everything kept in joyful rhythmic motion in the pulses of Nature's big heart.

The dullest eye in the world must surely be quickened by such trees as these.

The whole world seems richer now that I have found this plant in so noble a landscape.

Only spread a fern frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in.

Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.

The mountains are calling and I must go, and I will work on while I can, studying incessantly.