“Most people are on the world, not in it. ”
“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”
“In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks."
“The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark."
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.”
“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 am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news.”
“I never saw a discontented tree.”
“This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.”
“There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties”
“One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.”
“None of Nature’s landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.”
“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
“Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.”
