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• The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. -- John Mui
• 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....
• Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness.
  All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter....
• Going to the mountains is going home. -- John Muir, American Naturalist (1838-1914)
• When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.
  -- My First Summer in the Sierra , 1911, page 110....
• 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....
• Government protection should be thrown around every wild grove and forest on the mountains, as it is around every private orchard, and the trees in public parks.
  To say nothing of their value as fountains of timber, they are worth infinitely more than all the gardens and parks of towns....
• 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....