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  • #1
    John Muir
    “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
    John Muir

  • #2
    Sylvia Plath
    “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #3
    Lewis Carroll
    “I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

  • #4
    William Shakespeare
    “I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”
    William Shakespeare

  • #5
    Rachel Carson
    “Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.”
    Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

  • #6
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #7
    Vincent van Gogh
    “...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
    Vincent Willem van Gogh

  • #8
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

  • #9
    Albert Einstein
    “Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #10
    John Muir
    “Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.”
    John Muir, The Mountains of California

  • #11
    John Muir
    “Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity”
    John Muir, Our National Parks

  • #12
    Jack Kerouac
    “I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling.”
    Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

  • #13
    E.B. White
    “I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.”
    E. B. White, Letters of E. B. White

  • #14
    John Muir
    “The world's big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”
    John Muir

  • #15
    “How I go to the wood

    Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single
    friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore
    unsuitable.

    I don’t really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds
    or hugging the old black oak tree. I have my way of
    praying, as you no doubt have yours.

    Besides, when I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit
    on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds,
    until the foxes run by unconcerned. I can hear the almost
    unhearable sound of the roses singing.

    If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love
    you very much.”
    Mary Oliver, Swan: Poems and Prose Poems

  • #16
    Joseph Campbell
    “The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.”
    Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

  • #17
    John Muir
    “The mountains are calling and I must go.”
    John Muir

  • #18
    Andy Warhol
    “I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want.”
    Andy Warhol

  • #19
    John Muir
    “I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.”
    John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

  • #20
    Isaac Newton
    “Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy”
    Isaac Newton

  • #21
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house."

    [Notebook, Oct. 10, 1842]”
    Nathaniel Hawthorne, The American Notebooks: The Centenary Edition

  • #22
    Wallace Stegner
    “Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in.”
    Wallace Stegner, The Sound of Mountain Water

  • #23
    Henry David Thoreau
    “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.”
    Henry David Thoreau

  • #24
    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, My First Summer in the Sierra

  • #25
    John Muir
    “I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news”
    John Muir

  • #26
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    “I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”
    Frank Lloyd Wright, Truth Against the World: Frank Lloyd Wright Speaks for an Organic Architecture

  • #27
    John Muir
    “Going to the woods is going home.”
    John Muir

  • #28
    John Muir
    “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 Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

  • #29
    John Muir
    “There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.”
    John Muir, The Wilderness World of John Muir

  • #30
    John Muir
    “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
    John Muir



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