John Muir

“The mountains are calling and I must go.”

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

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”

“On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death. ... Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they...”

“The power of imagination makes us infinite.”

“One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.”