“I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer.” – John Muir

“Accidents in the mountains are less common than in the lowlands, and these mountain mansions are decent, delightful, even divine, places to die in, compared with the doleful chambers of […]

“How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!” – John Muir

“How terribly downright must seem the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.” – John Muir

“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