"Wander here a whole summer, if you can." -John Muir on Glacier National Park
“I slept as never before,
a stone on the river bed,
nothing between me and the white fire of the stars
but my thoughts,
and they floated light as moths
among the branches of the perfect trees.”
-Mary Oliver
"I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in." -John Muir
"However orderly your excursions or aimless, again and again amid the calmest, stillest scenery you will be brought to a standstill hush and awe-stricken before phenomena wholly new to you." -John Muir on Yellowstone National Park
“I am in love with Ocean
lifting her thousands of white hats
in the chop of the storm,
or lying smooth and blue, the
loveliest bed in the world.”
-Mary Oliver
"I'm in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana it is love. And it's difficult to analyze love when you're in it." -John Steinbeck
“When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement.” -Mary Oliver
"God never made an ugly landscape. All that the sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild." -John Muir
"Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity." -John Muir