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• Most people are on the world, not in it... -- John Mui
• Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play.
  Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes - all are warm with divine radium and must have lots of fun in them....
• How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof!
  In such places standing alone on the mountain-top it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make - leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents or piled stone - we all dwell in a house of one room - the world with the firmament for its roof - and are sailing the celestial spaces without leaving any track....
• Winds are advertisements of all they touch, however much or little we may be able to read them
  elling their wanderings ever by their accents alone....
• One touch of nature...makes all the world kin. -- John Muir, American Naturalist (1838-1914)
• It was not like taking the veil. No solemn adjuration of the world.
  I only went out for a walk and finally decided to stay till sundown....
• 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....
• 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....