Peter

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

“They were convalescing slowly and lay scrawny and weak in their bed. While they had been unconscious, the world had changed. The Yankees had come, the darkies had gone and Mother had died.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“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

“Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.”
― John Muir