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• 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....
• Most people are on the world, not in it. - have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them - undiffused
  eparate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate....
• 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....
• One touch of nature...makes all the world kin. -- John Muir, American Naturalist (1838-1914)
• 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....
• 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....
• Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad
  Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale...
• Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where.
  Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars....
• 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)...