America Quote by Robert Underwood Johnson

“Now, wilderness can be seen as a useful fiction, a fiction constructed by John Muir and his heirs and deployed to keep places from…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Having grown up in those woods, Walker knew that for many people, the wilderness did not represent an otherworldly sanctum of ‘biodiversity,’ as it…

— Robert Moor

“John Muir, Earth — planet, Universe [ Muir's home address, as inscribed on the inside front cover of his first field journal ]”

— John Muir

“The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or photographed…

— John Steinbeck

“Unlike Muir and Thoreau, McCandless went into the wilderness not primarily to ponder nature or the world at large but, rather, to explore the…

— Jon Krakauer

“George Sears, called Nessmuk, whose “Woodcraft,” published in 1884, was the first American book on forest camping, and is written with so much wisdom,…

— John McPhee

In that year [1865] John Muir offered to buy from his brother ... a sanctuary for the wildflowers that had gladdened his youth. His…

— Aldo Leopold

“A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But…

— John Muir

I had no more conception of what it meant to be a forester than the man in the moon…But at least a forester worked…

— Gifford Pinchot

Gifford Pinchot points out that in colonial and pioneer days the forest was a foe and an obstacle to the settler. It had to…

— Richard E. Blackwelder

“By the time the settlers and pioneers of America reached the West Coast, they had gone through many dramatic landscapes, but nothing quite prepared…

— Jack Weatherford

I would say Gary Snyder, who is from my part of the world as a poet and environmental thinker, will be read just as…

— Robert Hass