“Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress...”

“How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!”

“It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset. [speaking about Ralph Waldo Emerson]”

“He had gone to the higher Sierras... [about Ralph Waldo Emerson's death]”

“In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others”

“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 power of imagination makes us infinite.”