“Now, wilderness can be seen as a useful fiction, a fiction constructed by John Muir and his heirs and deployed to keep… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I would say Gary Snyder, who is from my part of the world as a poet and environmental thinker, will be read… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in… — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
“John Muir, Earth — planet, Universe [ Muir's home address, as inscribed on the inside front cover of his first field journal ]” — John Muir Copy Share Image
“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” —John Muir” — Richard Oppenlander Copy Share Image
“A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like… — John Muir Copy Share Image
In that year [1865] John Muir offered to buy from his brother ... a sanctuary for the wildflowers that had gladdened his… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“Chastity and moral purity were qualities McCandless mulled over long and often. Indeed, one of the books found in the bus with… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“I explored the literature of tree-climbing, not extensive, but so exciting. John Muir had swarmed up a hundred-foot Douglas Spruce during a… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
“His treatment of mechanical problems wasn't divorced from the worldly situations in which they arise, and as a result [John Muir's service… — Matthew B. Crawford Copy Share Image
Inspired by John Muir's A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, John Davis walks, bikes, and kayaks on a 'voyage of recovery' from… — Michael Brune Copy Share Image
I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. -John Muir, naturalist,… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“Keep close to Nature's heart, yourself; and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week… — Samuel Hall Young Copy Share Image
John Muir, the famous naturalist, wrote in his journal that you should never go to Alaska as a young man because you'll… — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image