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• One touch of nature...makes all the world kin. -- John Muir, American Naturalist (1838-1914)
• All Nature's wildness tells the same story: the shocks and outbursts of earthquake
  volcanoes, geysers, roaring , thundering waves and floods, the silent uproot of sap in plants, storms of every sort, each and all, are the orderly, beauty-making love-beats of Nature's heart....
• 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)...
• None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.
  -- John Muir, American Naturalist (1838-1914)...
• 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....
• 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....
• 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....
• I trust only one thing in a woman: that she will not come to life again after she is dead.
  In all other things I distrust her. -- Antipanes (388-311 B.C.), Greek comic dramatist, Fragme...