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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)...
• None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.
  -- John Muir, American Naturalist (1838-1914)...
• One touch of nature...makes all the world kin. -- 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....
• 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....
• 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....
• 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...
• One day's exposure to mountains is better than carloads of books.
  See how willingly Nature poses herself upon photographers' plates....
• 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)...