Our National Parks

“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””

— John Muir

“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.””

— John Muir

“One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.””

— John Muir

“He had gone to the higher Sierras... [about Ralph Waldo Emerson's death]””

— John Muir

“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. [speaking about Ralph Waldo Emerson]””

— John Muir

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

— John Muir

“The finest of the glacier meadow gardens lie ...imbedded in the upper pine forests like lakes of light.””

— John Muir

“C. albus...I think the very loveliest of all the lily family,- a spotless soul, plant saint, that every one must love and so be made better. It puts the wildest mountaineer on his good behavior. With this plant the whole world would seem rich though non other existed.””

— John Muir