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
God never made an ugly landscape. All that sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild. — John Muir Copy Share Image
“YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — In an otherworldly grove of cinnamon-colored” — Anonymous 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
As I hammered in the last bolt and staggered over the rim, it was not at all clear to me who was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am free to confess that I am disappointed with the Yosemite valley. It seems only about one-half as grand as the… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
In God's wildness lies the hope of the world-the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and… — John Muir Copy Share Image
It is easier to feel than to realize, or in any way explain, Yosemite grandeur. The magnitudes of the rocks and trees… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I took a workshop from him a few months after that. That experience changed my whole approach to photography. At that workshop… — John Sexton 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
'Yosemite' opened doors for me in the New York theater community in amazing ways. There's a whole world of fearless young theater… — Kathryn Erbe Copy Share Image
As to scenery (giving my own thought and feeling), while I know the standard claim is that Yosemite, Niagara Falls, the Upper… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“The vision of this massive body of water with towering monoliths jutting straight upward to the heavens, stole our ability to think.Colors… — Danielle Rohr Copy Share Image
No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...Awful in stern, immovable… — John Muir 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
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
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
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
The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I can't help thinking that if the American West were discovered today, the most glorious bits would be sold off to the… — Nicholas Kristof 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 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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
![“What they [Jim deMint and the oil lobby] do care about is the precedent. If they open up ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge), they'll think they can do anything to the environment - anything at all. Drilling in Yosemite? In the Grand Canyon? What's next?” quote by Barbara Boxer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c9a/barbara-boxer-4675_anwr_what-they-jim-demint-and-the-oil-lobby-d_893830.jpg)
