Quotes on Yosemite

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.

As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can".

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.

The future of Yosemite climbing lies not in Yosemite, but in using the new techniques in the great granite ranges of the world.