But no temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...as if into this one mountain mansion Nature had gathered her choicest treasures.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.

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

The grand show is eternal It is always sunrise somewhere

I’d rather be in the mountains thinking of God, than in church thinking about the mountains.

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.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

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

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

Wilderness is a necessity... there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls.

Your life is your journey. You have to enjoy it because no one can feel or see it for you.

Fear can be headier than whiskey once man has acquired a taste for it.

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

To escape the error of salvation by works we have fallen into the opposite error of salvation without obedience.

Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper.

The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people.

I 'Don't See How It Matters' That I Don't Know The Price Of Gas.

One of the greatest motivating factors is the pat on the back, although with some individuals, you have to make the pat a little lower or a little harder.

When the evil deed, after it has become known, brings sorrow to the fool, then it destroys his bright lot, nay, it cleaves his head.

The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.