The mountains are calling and I must go.

- John Muir

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

- John Muir

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshne…

- John Muir

I’d rather be in the mountains thinking of God, than in church thinking about the mountains.

- John Muir

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 neces…

- John Muir

Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.

- John Muir

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.

- John Muir

Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.

- John Muir

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

- John Muir