When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.
Hamlin Garland

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours."
Robert Byrne

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
Ansel Adams

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
Hal Borland