Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.

Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.

Keep close to Nature's heart...and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen

Give me a wildness whose glance no civilization can endure

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