John Muir ( MURE; April 21, 1838 – December 24, 1914), also known as "John of the Mountains" and "Father of the National Parks", was a Scottish-born American: 42 naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, botanist, zoologist, glaciologist, and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the United States.
Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
I learn something every time I go into the mountains.
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.