You'll never make up what you lost today, I've been wandering through a thousand rooms of God's crystal temple. I've been a thousand feet down in the crevasses, with matchless domes and sculpted figures and carved ice-work all about me. Solomon's marble and ivory palaces were nothing to it. Such purity, such color, such delicate beauty! I was tempted to stay there and feed my soul, and softly freeze, until I would become part of the glacier. What a great death that would be.

Even the sick should try these so-called dangerous passes, because for every unfortunate they kill, they cure a thousand.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

How many hearts with warm, red blood in them are beating under cover of the woods, and how many teeth and eyes are shining? A multitude of animal people, intimately related to us, but of whose lives we know almost nothing, are as busy about their own affairs as we are about ours.

Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.

Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing

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.

One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.

None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.