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• I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found.
  -- John Muir, American Naturalist (1838-1914)...
• Going to the mountains is going home. -- John Muir, American Naturalist (1838-1914)
• 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....
• Fresh beauty opens one's eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets our steps prevents its being absorbed and appreciated.
  It is a good thing, therefore, to make short excursions now and then to the bottom of the sea among dulse and coral, or up among the clouds on mountain-tops, or in balloons, or even to creep like worms into dark holes and caverns underground, not only to learn something of what is going on in those out-of-the-way places, but to see better what the sun sees on our return to common everyday beauty....
• It has been said that trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment rooted in the ground.
  But they never seem so to me. I never saw a discontented tree....
• How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
  -- R. Buckminster Fulle...
• 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....
• I ain't going out like dat...