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• 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...
• Glaciers move in tides. So do mountains. So do all things. -- John Mui
• When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop
  iped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with all other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty....
• Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds or the music of water written in river-lines?
  -- John Muir, American Naturalist (1838-1914)...
• Going to the mountains is going home. -- 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....
• Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad, whatever is done and suffered by her creatures.
  All scars she heals, whether in rocks or water or sky or hearts....
• 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....
• These temple-destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism
  eem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and instead of lifting their eyes to the God of the mountains, lift them to the Almighty Dollar....