Man is not himself only...He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources...He is the land, the lift of its mountain lines, the….

The real wonder is not that one man should be a genius, but that every man should not be..

As I walk .. as I walk .. / The universe .. is walking with me .. / Beautifully .. it walks before me .... / Beautifully .. on every side .... / As I….

What women have to stand on squarely [is] not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing i….

This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.

For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars..

The desert floras shame us with their cheerful adaptations to the seasonal limitations. Their whole duty is to flower and fruit, and they do it hardl….

No man can be stronger than his destiny..

I am not sure that God always knows who are his great men; he is so very careless of what happens to them while they live..

The palpable sense of mystery in the desert air breeds fables, chiefly of lost treasure. ... It is a question whether it is not better to be bitten b….

Some think that even the ancients who lived long before the present generation, and first framed accounts of the Gods, had a similar view of nature; ….

Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind..

When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of her experience..

The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion..

It is no use trying to improve on children's names for wildflowers..

Even the people who have it do not definitely know what genius is..

You have to beat out for yourself many mornings on the windy headlands the sense of the fact that you get the same rainbow in the cloud drift over Wa….

The arc of my mind has an equal swing in all directions. I should say the same of your mind if I thought you would believe it. But we are so saturate….

Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena..

It is always so much easier to be moral than it is to be spiritual..

Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise. ... The cunningest hunger is hunted in ….