To View Mountains: Day 15 – Pinchot Pass
“I drifted about from rock to rock, from stream to stream, from grove to grove. Where night found me, there I camped. … I asked the boulders I met, whence […]
“I drifted about from rock to rock, from stream to stream, from grove to grove. Where night found me, there I camped. … I asked the boulders I met, whence […]
“Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.” […]
“In every country the mountains are fountains, not only of rivers but of men. Therefore we all are born mountaineers, the offspring of rock and sunshine.” – John Muir
“Living artificially in towns, we are sickly, and never come to know ourselves.” – John Muir
“We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.” – John Muir
“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” – John Muir
“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings, Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.” – John Muir
“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” – 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 alike.” – John Muir
“The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.” – John Muir