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

“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.”

“When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.”

“In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others”

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

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”

“John Muir, Earth — planet, Universe[Muir's home address, as inscribed on the inside front cover of his first field journal]”