Yosemite Quotes
28 quotes by 16 authors
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Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
— Ansel Adams
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A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy.
— Galen Rowell
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I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
— Ansel Adams
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The great rocks of Yosemite, expressing qualities of timeless yet intimate grandeur, are the most compelling formations of their kind. We should not casually pass…
— Ansel Adams
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I wonder how many men, hiding their youngness, rise as I do, Saturday mornings, filled with the hope that Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam and Daffy…
— Ray Bradbury
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Just why is Yosemite climbing so different ? Why does it have techniques, ethics and equipment all of its own ? The basic reason lies…
— Yvon Chouinard
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The future of Yosemite climbing lies not in Yosemite, but in using the new techniques in the great granite ranges of the world.
— Yvon Chouinard
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I hate climbers like Royal Robbins who are so superior. He doesn’t mean to be, he just is. He’s methodic, scientific, capable, and so competent…
— Warren G. Harding
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I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite…
— Galen
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While our managers debated what steps to take to address the sales and cash-flow crisis, I began to lead week-long employee seminars in what we…
— Yvon Chouinard
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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…
— Barbara Boxer
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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 to go, so…
— Dave Brubeck
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Your legs feel like fried bacon after a day of climbing and descending. It's a roller coaster ride, but no one is pulling you up…
— Frosty Wooldridge
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I must return to the mountains-to Yosemite. I am told that the winter storms there will not be easily borne, but I am bewitched, enchanted,…
— John Muir
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But no temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...as if into this one mountain…
— John Muir
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No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...Awful in stern, immovable majesty, how softly…
— John Muir
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No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite.
— John Muir
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There can be nothing in the world more beautiful than the Yosemite, the groves of the giant sequoias and redwoods, the Canyon of the Colorado,…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Yosemite Park... None can escape its charms. Its natural beauty cleans and warms like a fire, and you will be willing to stay forever in…
— John Muir
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Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands, in which one…
— John Muir
Who Wrote These Yosemite Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 28 Yosemite Quotes as follows: