One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books. See how willingly Nature poses herself upon photographers' plates. No earthly chem… - John Muir

No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in the way of a right understanding of the relations which culture sustains to wildness, as that which declares that the world as made especially for the uses of men. Every animal, plant, and crystal controverts it in the plainest terms. Yet it is taught from century to century as something ever new and precious, and in the resulting darkness the enormous conceit is allowed to go unchallenged.

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.

The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted.