You might be a redneck if your kids are going hungry tonight because you just had to have those Yosemite Sam mud… — Jeff Foxworthy Copy Share Image
A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy. — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
A perfect day would be to get into the car, drive out to Yosemite and go camping. — Michael Steger Copy Share Image
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. — John Muir Copy Share Image
Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“We take too much of our heritage for granted. Harriman State Park is not Mt. Vernon. Nor is it Yosemite. But heritage… — Mary E. Reed Copy Share Image
But no temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...as if into… — John Muir Copy Share Image
When I was about fifteen, I went to work at Yosemite National Park. It changed me forever. Nature had carved its own… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
From an early age, Yosemite became the centre of my universe. I've been going every summer since I was a child. I… — Tommy Caldwell Copy Share Image
I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books. See how willingly Nature poses herself upon photographers' plates. No earthly… — John Muir Copy Share Image
My mama didn't see it comin, my daddy was there. What's my excuse? Cartoons were the root. Started with Yosemite Sam With… — Pusha T Copy Share Image
Maybe you weren't born with a silver spoon in your mouth, but like every American, you carry a deed to 635 million… — John Garamendi Copy Share Image
I was living in Monterey, a place where the classic photographers - the Westons, Wynn Bullock and Ansel Adams - came for… — Lewis Baltz Copy Share Image
Already renewable energy advocates are noting that the 42 miles of above-ground right-of-way between Yosemite and the city could be fitted with… — Matt Gonzalez Copy Share Image
I must return to the mountains-to Yosemite. I am told that the winter storms there will not be easily borne, but I… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“Down through the middle of the Valley flows the crystal Merced, River of Mercy, peacefully quiet, reflecting lilies and trees and the… — John Muir Copy Share Image
All Nature's wildness tells the same story: the shocks and outbursts of earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers, roaring, thundering waves and floods, the silent… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“Surely our people do not understand even yet the rich heritage that is theirs. There can be nothing in the world more… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Just why is Yosemite climbing so different ? Why does it have techniques, ethics and equipment all of its own ? The… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
Ink cannot tell the glow that lights me at this moment in turning to the mountains. I feel strong [enough] to leap… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“I cut off some of their flat, spicy plumes for a bed, gathered a store of wood, and made a cordial fire,… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Yosemite Park... None can escape its charms. Its natural beauty cleans and warms like a fire, and you will be willing to… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I used to take my mother to Yosemite. When I turned 14, I got my driver's license, and that's where she'd want… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
I went to Yosemite as an homage to Ansel Adams. I could never be Ansel Adams, but to know that's there for… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
I spent two summers working at Camp Curry and at Yosemite Lodge as a waiter. It gave me a chance to really… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
Yosemite really brings out my creativity. It's such a powerful place, there's some sort of amazing energy going on that fuels me. — Dean Potter Copy Share Image
“The parts of my mind that apply logic and understanding had somehow abandoned me, and something primitive and instinctual took control.” — Danielle Rohr Copy Share Image
I wonder how many men, hiding their youngness, rise as I do, Saturday mornings, filled with the hope that Bugs Bunny, Yosemite… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The great rocks of Yosemite, expressing qualities of timeless yet intimate grandeur, are the most compelling formations of their kind. We should… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands,… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The future of Yosemite climbing lies not in Yosemite, but in using the new techniques in the great granite ranges of the… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
I hate climbers like Royal Robbins who are so superior. He doesn’t mean to be, he just is. He’s methodic, scientific, capable,… — Warren G. Harding Copy Share Image
What they [Jim deMint and the oil lobby] do care about is the precedent. If they open up ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image