JOHN MUIR

"Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal."

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

"We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men."

"I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong."

"Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world."

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

"It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest."

"Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold."

"Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever."

"Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike."

"On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death."

"Learn to live like the wild animals"

"The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized."

"This time it is real - all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!"

"It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset."

"Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get - people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep."

"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."

"The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts."

"Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees."

"I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine."

"Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen."

"Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm."