None of Nature’s landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild

I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.

Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.

The morning stars still sing together, and the world, not yet half made, becomes more beautiful every day.

Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it

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

The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.

The battle for conservation will go on endlessly. It is part of the universal battle between right and wrong.

Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.

Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.

The sun shines not on us but in us.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Earth has no sorrow that earth cannot heal.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness

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.

God never made an ugly landscape. All that sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild.

God never made an ugly landscape. All that sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild.

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

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