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• I am always glad to touch the living rock again and dip my head in the high mountain sky.
  -- John Mui...
• I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer. -- John Mui
• Government protection should be thrown around every wild grove and forest on the mountains, as it is around every private orchard, and the trees in public parks.
  To say nothing of their value as fountains of timber, they are worth infinitely more than all the gardens and parks of towns....
• Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home
  hat wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life....
• Most people are on the world, not in it... -- John Mui
• The mountains are calling me and I must go... -- John Mui
• If my soul could get away from this so-called prison.
  ..I should hover over the beauty of our own bright star....
• 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....
• I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found.
  -- John Muir, American Naturalist (1838-1914)...