John Muir

We are all part of the same great family of nature.

The best way to learn about nature is to go out and experience it.

I am a tramp, a wanderer, a lover of the wild.

The Sierra Nevada, the Range of Light, has been my home for many years.

The more we know about nature, the more we appreciate its beauty and its power.

The Yosemite is a temple, a cathedral, a place of worship.

I have always loved the wild, the untamed, the free.

The mountains are not just a place, they are a state of mind.

The wilderness is a place of healing, a place of renewal, a place of hope.

I would rather be in the mountains than anywhere else in the world.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.

The sun shines not on us but in us.

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.

Between every two pines is a door to a new world.

Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but as part of one undisturbed, harmonious whole.

I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

Rivers are roads that move and carry us whither we wish to go.

The snow is sparkling like a million diamonds.