John Muir

“The mountains are calling and I must go.”

“Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.”

“The sun shines not on us but in us.”

“How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!”

“Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.”

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

“Going to the mountains is going home.”

“Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.”

“Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach.”

“Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest.”

“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”

“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.”

“In God's wildness lies the hope of the world.”

“Wildness is a necessity.”

“Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.”

“The power of imagination makes us infinite.”

“Most people are on the world, not in it.”

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.”

“The snow is melting into music.”