“Beauty will save the world.”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I love not man the less, but Nature more.”

Lord Byron

“Of all the paths you take in life, make sure some of them are dirt.”

John Muir

“We as a culture are forgetting that we are actually natural organisms and that we have this very, very deep connection with nature.”

James Balog

“Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.”

Jimmy Carter

“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.”

John Ruskin

“The Earth laughs in flowers.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The mountains are calling and I must go.”

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

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.”

John Muir