In The Words Of Our Heros

John Muir
"If you are business tangled and so burdened by duty that only weeks can be got out of the heavy laden year, give a month at least. The time will not be taken from your sum of life. Instead of shortening it will indefinitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal. Nevermore will time seem short or long and cares will never again fall heavily on you , but gently and kindly as gifts for heaven."
John Muir, July 1909

"And so I might go on, writing words, words, words; but to what purpose? Go see him and love him, and through him as through a window look into Nature’s warm heart."
John Muir, "Among The Birds of Yosemite" Atlantic Magazine 1901

"Everything is so beautiful and fresh & inspiring that I begin to feel young again. I think I like pine trees & spring & streams of chrystal water better than ever, and I get excited about them more than I let people know…"
John Muir in August 1895, writing to his daughter

"Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods…Sleep in forgetfulness of all ills…"
John Muir, Journal entry 1875

"Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of nature’s darlings. Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees."
John Muir


President Theodore Roosevelt
We must handle the woods, the water, the grasses so that we will hand them to our children and our children’s children in better and not worse shape than we got them."
President Theodore Roosevelt, 1903

Our people do not understand even yet the rich heritage that is theirs. There can be nothing in the world more beautiful than the Yosemite, the groves of giant sequoias and redwoods, the canyon of the Colorado, the canyon of the Yellowstone, the three Tetons…"
President Theodore Roosevelt