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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.

Earth laughs in flowers.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain withi its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened pines; Odor of basswood upon a mountain slope, A scene beloved of bees; Silence of water above a sunken tree: The pure serene of memory of one man,-- A ripple widening from a single stone Winding around the waters of the world.

Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.

The groves were God's first temples.

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

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

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.

Art is man's nature: Nature is God's art.

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.