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• One is constantly reminded of the infinite lavishness and fertility of Nature -- inexhaustible abundance amid what seems enormous waste.
  And yet when we look into any of her operations that lie within reach of our minds, we learn that no particle of her material is wasted or worn out....
• 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....
• Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest!
  Days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God....
• 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 touch of nature...makes all the world kin. -- John Muir, American Naturalist (1838-1914)
• 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)...
• None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.
  -- 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)...
• Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life
  heir joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life....