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“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“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

“My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.”
― Aldous Huxley

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

“The mountains are calling and I must go.”
― John Muir

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

“In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.”
― John Muir

“The sun shines not on us but in us.”
― 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― John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

“This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.”
― John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

“Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.”
― John Muir

“Going to the mountains is going home.”
― John Muir

“Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.”
― John Muir

“Going to the woods is going home.”
― John Muir

“And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul”
― John Muir

“Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.”
― John Muir

“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”
― John Muir, Our National Parks

“How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!”
― John Muir, The Mountains of California

“Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.”
― John Muir

“Nothing truly wild is unclean.”
― John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra

“Habits were such lies, such lies, lulling them into the feeling that there was something that was lasting, when really nothing lasted. This was the last time she would ever sit on this bench. If she came down to the corniche tomorrow and sat on this same bench, it would again be the last time, and there would again be nothing lasting about it.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, The Martians