Come to the woods, for here is rest..

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..

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..

The power of imagination makes us infinite..

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

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshne….

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness..

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

Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life..

The mountains are calling and I must go..

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 neces….

All the wild world is beautiful, and it matters but little where we go, to highlands or lowlands, woods or plains, on the sea or land or down among t….

The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us. Thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of….

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

Hiking - I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains - not hike! Do you know the origin of that word 'saunter….

These beautiful days ... do not exist as mere pictures - maps hung upon the walls of memory to brighten at times when touched by association or will ….

To sit in solitude, to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar to break the flow of silence, there lies the value of wilder….

Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.

There are no accidents in Nature. Every motion of the constantly shifting bodies in the world is timed to the occasion for some definite, fore-ordere….

Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean..

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