Sheep, like people, are ungovernable when hungry.

keep in view the common good of the people for all time.

Of all the mountain ranges I have climbed, I like the Sierra Nevada the best.

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountain is going home; that wildness is necessity; that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.

Most people are on the world, not in it - having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them - undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate

Sequoia seeds have flat wings, and glint and glance in their flight like a boy's kite.