

“I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.”
― Wilderness Essays
― Wilderness Essays

“Most people are on the world, not in it — have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them — undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.”
― John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir
― John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

“The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not supported by all the facts.”
― A Thousand-Mile Walk To The Gulf
― A Thousand-Mile Walk To The Gulf
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