The power of imagination makes us infinite.

Most people are on the world, not in it

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

Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action

The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.”

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.

This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.”

I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news.