“I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!”

“We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.”

“A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm,waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm likeworship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, theirsongs never cease. -John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer (1838-1914)”

“Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.”

“All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world's wildernesses I first should wander.”

“Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get---people,storms, guardian angels, or sheep....”

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