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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness
Michael Kagerer
“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
John Muir, from "My First Summer in the Sierra," originally published in 1911
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
-- John Muir
John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir
“Hiking - I don’t like either the word or the thing.”
“People ought to saunter in the mountains - not hike! Do you know the origin of that word ‘saunter?’ It’s a beautiful word. Away back in the Middle Ages people used to go on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and when people in the villages through which they passed asked where they were going, they would reply, ‘A la sainte terre,’ ‘To the Holy Land.’ And so they became known as sainte-terre-ers or saunterers.”
“Now these mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.”
JOHN MUIR