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.

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.

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

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

The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not supported by all the facts.

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

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 only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.

Most people are on the world, not in it

Do not be perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal; and in a little time you will be nobody and nowhere.

I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.

“Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone.” 

“Nature loves to hide.” 

“Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.

“What right have we to believe Nature under any obligation to do her work by means of complete minds only? She may find an incomplete mind a more suitable instrument for a particular purpose.” 

“There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.” 

“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.” 

“How often does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them! When men are once trained, it is essential that their leader leave them, for without his absence they cannot develop themselves. Plants always remain small under a big tree.” 

The success of love is in the loving – it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does NOT determine the value of what we have done.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls

When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.

Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried.

The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musician, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point, and each in his several work to satisfy the love of beauty which stimulates him to produce.