“I have seen persons of emotional temperament stand with tearful eyes, spellbound and dumb with awe, as they got their first view of the Valley from Inspiration Point, overwhelmed in the sudden presence of the unspeakable, stupendous grandeur.”
– Galen Clark, guardian of the Yosemite Grant
Everybody needs beauty... places to play and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike,” John Muir (c. 1902).
"In God's wildness lies the hope of the world - the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware." — John Muir from John of the Mountains (1938)
"Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality." — John Muir from John of the Mountains (1938)
"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness." — John Muir from John of the Mountains (1938)
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