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• 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.
  Nowhere will you find more company of a soothing peace-be- still kind....
• Everything is flowing -- going somewhere, animals and so- called lifeless rocks as well as water.
  Thus the snow flows fast or slow in grand beauty-making glaciers and avalanche...
• Going to the mountains is going home. -- John Muir, American Naturalist (1838-1914)
• 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....
• 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....
• Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds or the music of water written in river-lines?
  -- 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)...
• 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)...
• All Nature's wildness tells the same story: the shocks and outbursts of earthquake
  volcanoes, geysers, roaring , thundering waves and floods, the silent uproot of sap in plants, storms of every sort, each and all, are the orderly, beauty-making love-beats of Nature's heart....