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• One is constantly reminded of the infinite lavishness and fertility of Nature -- inexhaustible abundance amid what seems enormous waste.
  And yet when we look into any of her operations that lie within reach of our minds, we learn that no particle of her material is wasted or worn out....
• If my soul could get away from this so-called prison, be granted all the list of attributes generally bestowed on spirits, my first ramble on spirit-wings would not be among the volcanoes of the moon.
  Nor should I follow the sunbeams to their sources in the sun....
• Going to the mountains is going home. -- John Muir, American Naturalist (1838-1914)
• Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying
  keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another....
• One day's exposure to mountains is better than carloads of books.
  See how willingly Nature poses herself upon photographers' plates....
• Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods.
  Wash your spirit clean. -- John Muir, American Naturalist (1838-1914)...
• Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods.
  Here grow the wallflower and the violet. The squirrel will come and sit upon your knee, the logcock will wake you in the morning....
• Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home
  hat wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life....
• The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil.
  The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains - mountain dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Nature's workshops....