Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

I owned the world that hour, as I rode over it. Free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.