“Over the summit, I saw the so-called Mono desert lying dreamily silent in the thick, purple light -- a desert of heavy sun-glare beheld from a desert of ice-burnished granite.”

“The finest of the glacier meadow gardens lie ...imbedded in the upper pine forests like lakes of light.”

“I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!”

“I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.”

“The mountains are calling and I must go.”

“The sun shines not on us but in us.”

“How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!”