Most people are on the world, not in it-- having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them-- undiffused seporate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but seporate.
John MuirIf I should be fated to walk no more with Nature, be compelled to leave all I most devoutly love in the wilderness, return to civilization and be twisted into the characterless cable of society, then these sweet, free, cumberless rovings will be as chinks and slits on life's horizon, through which I may obtain glimpses of the treasures that lie in God's wilds beyond my reach.
John MuirMost people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
John MuirStrange the faithless fuss made about taking a walk in the safest and pleasantest of all places, a wilderness.
John Muir