Yosemite famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Space #Sunrise #Yosemite
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 I'd go take her there for two weeks.
-- Dave Brubeck

#Mother #Two #Yosemite
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 in the High Sierra
-- Galen

#People #Yosemite #World
I am free to confess that I am disappointed with the Yosemite valley. It seems only about one-half as grand as the American Fork canyon.
-- Heber J. Grant

#Half #Yosemite #Valleys
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 gains the advantages of both solitude and society...
-- John Muir

#Dust #Solitude #Yosemite
As I hammered in the last bolt and staggered over the rim, it was not at all clear to me who was the conqueror and who was the conquered. I do recall that El Cap seemed to be in much better condition than I was.
-- Warren Harding

#Climbing #Yosemite #Lasts
I took a workshop from him a few months after that. That experience changed my whole approach to photography. At that workshop in Yosemite in 1973 I decided I wanted to try and see if I could pursue this for myself, and I'm still trying.
-- John Sexton

#Photography #Trying #Yosemite

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I write about what I know.
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