Famous Quotes by John Muir

“The mountains are calling and I must go.”

The smells of a forest affect us in ways that are visceral and powerful.

Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly longer than those of wood rats, while their more enduring monuments, excepting those wrought on the forests by the fires they made to improve their hunting grounds, vanish in a few centuries.