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• There is a love of wild nature in everybody an ancient mother-love ever showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
  -- John Muir, American Naturalist (1838-1914)...
• One touch of nature...makes all the world kin. -- John Muir, American Naturalist (1838-1914)
• There is not a "fragment" in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
  -- John Muir, American Naturalist (1838-1914)...
• As goatherd learns his trade by goat, so writer learns his trade by wrote.
  As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing....
• Going to the mountains is going home. -- John Muir, American Naturalist (1838-1914)
• So extraordinary is Nature with her choicest treasures, spending plant beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea, garden and desert.
  And so the beauty of lilies falls on angels and men, bears and squirrels, wolves and sheep, birds and bees....
• One day's exposure to mountains is better than carloads of books.
  See how willingly Nature poses herself upon photographers' plates....
• Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike.
  -- John Muir, American Naturalist (1838-1914)...
• 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)...