Yosemite Quotes

Most people are on the world, not in it.

— John Muir

Yosemite Valley is like a tourist zoo. It's shameful.

— Michael Frome

In God's wildness lies the hope of the world.

— John Muir

While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

— John Muir

No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite.

— John Muir

I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.

— Ansel Adams

We jump every day in Yosemite.

— Dean Potter

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.

— John Muir

A perfect day would be to get into the car, drive out to Yosemite and go camping.

— Michael Steger

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.

— John Muir

God never made an ugly landscape. All that sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild.

— John Muir

“YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — In an otherworldly grove of cinnamon-colored”

— Anonymous

You might be a redneck if your kids are going hungry tonight because you just had to have those Yosemite Sam mud…

— Jeff Foxworthy

A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy.

— Galen Rowell

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

— Ansel Adams

“We don't speak of it, or react to it. Paralyzed in a reality of uncertainty and madness,this is where we are.”

— Danielle Rohr

“The parts of my mind that apply logic and understanding had somehow abandoned me, and something primitive and instinctual took control.”

— Danielle Rohr

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

The great rocks of Yosemite, expressing qualities of timeless yet intimate grandeur, are the most compelling formations of their kind. We should…

— Ansel Adams

I wonder how many men, hiding their youngness, rise as I do, Saturday mornings, filled with the hope that Bugs Bunny, Yosemite…

— Ray Bradbury

I spent two summers working at Camp Curry and at Yosemite Lodge as a waiter. It gave me a chance to really…

— Robert Redford

The future of Yosemite climbing lies not in Yosemite, but in using the new techniques in the great granite ranges of the…

— Yvon Chouinard

Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands,…

— John Muir

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

“Surely our people do not understand even yet the rich heritage that is theirs. There can be nothing in the world more…

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

What they [Jim deMint and the oil lobby] do care about is the precedent. If they open up ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife…

— Barbara Boxer

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

Just why is Yosemite climbing so different ? Why does it have techniques, ethics and equipment all of its own ? The…

— Yvon Chouinard

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

“Down through the middle of the Valley flows the crystal Merced, River of Mercy, peacefully quiet, reflecting lilies and trees and the…

— John Muir

Some of the natural world is appealing, some of it is terrifying, and some of it grosses us out. Modern people don't…

— Paul Bloom

Your legs feel like fried bacon after a day of climbing and descending. It's a roller coaster ride, but no one is…

— Frosty Wooldridge

“If for a moment you are inclined to regard these taluses as mere draggled, chaotic dumps, climb to the top of one…

— John Muir

“Along the Merced River there’s a deep sense of peace, yet it coexists with danger. No matter how sedate the river may…

— R. Mark Liebenow

“The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number…

— John Muir

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give…

— John Muir

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

— Ansel Adams

“Yosemite is so large that you can think of it as five parks. Yosemite Valley, famous for waterfalls and cliffs, and Wawona,…

— Fodor's Travel Publications Inc

“An afternoon drive from Los Angeles will take you up into the high mountains, where eagles circle above the forests and the…

— Christopher Isherwood