The care-laden commercial lives we lead close our eyes to the operations of God as a workman, though openly carried on that all who will look may see. - John Muir

Here are the roots of all the life of the valleys, and here more simply than elsewhere is the eternal flux of nature manifested.

I used to envy the father of our race, dwelling as he did in contact with the new-made fields and plants of Eden; but I do so no more, because I have discovered that I also live in "creation's dawn." The morning stars still sing together, and the world, not yet half made, becomes more beautiful every day.

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; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.