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• Going to the mountains is going home. -- John Muir, American Naturalist (1838-1914)
• The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
  -- 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)...
• How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof!
  In such places standing alone on the mountain-top it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make - leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents or piled stone - we all dwell in a house of one room - the world with the firmament for its roof - and are sailing the celestial spaces without leaving any track....
• Winds are advertisements of all they touch, however much or little we may be able to read them
  elling their wanderings ever by their accents alone....
• It was not like taking the veil. No solemn adjuration of the world.
  I only went out for a walk and finally decided to stay till sundown....
• When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop
  iped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with all other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty....
• In God's wildness lies the hope of the world x the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness.
  The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware....