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.
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.
Going to the mountains is going home.
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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.
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
The mountains are calling and I must go.
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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 freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.
The establishment of the National Park Service is justified by considerations of good administration, of the value of natural beauty as a National asset, and of the effectiveness of outdoor life and recreation in the production of good citizenship.
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.
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.
Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
The fundamental idea...is that the country belongs to the people, that it is in process of making for the enrichment of the lives of all of us.
Television was supposed to be a national park. (Instead) it has become a money machine... It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.
Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of nature's darlings.
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