The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
- John of the Mountains (1938), page 313.

Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Here grow the wallflower and the violet. The squirrel will come and sit upon your knee, the logcock will wake you in the morning. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill. Of all the upness accessible to mortals, there is no upness comparable to the mountains.

No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening - still all is Beauty!

-John Muir, 1st President of the Sierra Club, Naturalist, Conservationist

History teaches us that the great revolutions aren�t started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place when people begin to live a little better- and when they see how much yet remains to be achieved.
- Hubert Humphrey

I�m an agitator, and the agitator is the centerpost in a washing machine that gets the dirt out.
- Jim Hightower

An excursion ... if properly conducted will do an infinite amount of good toward awakening the proper kind of interest in the forests and other natural features of our mountains, and will also tend to create a spirit of good fellowship among our members.
- William Colby

The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
- Anonymous