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• Going to the mountains is going home. -- John Muir, American Naturalist (1838-1914)
• The mountains are calling me and I must go... -- John Mui
• Pictures worth a thousand words take ten thousand times as long to draw.
• No mountains I know of are so alluring. None so hospitable, kindly, tenderly inspiring.
  It seems strange that everybody does not come at their call....
• 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....
• Glaciers move in tides. So do mountains. So do all things. -- John Mui
• Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home
  hat wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life....
• One day's exposure to mountains is better than carloads of books.
  See how willingly Nature poses herself upon photographers' plates....
• Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. -- John Mui