John Muir

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

To sit in solitude, to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar tree for company, has been my delight.

The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.

Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, joyful action.

The battle for conservation will be won or lost in the cities.

I am in the mountains, and they are in me.

The Yosemite Valley, to me, is the most beautiful place in the world.

No amount of word-making will ever make a single soul to know these mountains. As well attempt to warm the freezing and cheer the dead with descriptions of fire and merriment. Only by going yourself can you know.

This is the right way to see the world, to see it from the inside out.

Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods.

The finest of the Yosemite waterfalls, the Bridal Veil, is a glorious sight.

I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness.

The more I see of the world, the more I am convinced that there is no other way to live than to live in harmony with nature.

The Sierra Club is a club of mountaineers, and we are all mountaineers.

The very stones cry out for recognition.

Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed, for if once the axe is sharpened and the money paid, some one will be found to hew them down.

I have seen the face of God in the mountains.

The greatest good for the greatest number is a damnable doctrine when it comes to the rights of nature.

The Yosemite is a place of rest, a place of healing, a place of peace.