The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
Going to the mountains is going home.
In wildness is the preservation of the world.
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.
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life.
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence . . .
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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.
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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.
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.
Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in.
One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains - mountain dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Nature's workshops.
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