“The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.”

– Frank A. Clark, The Country Parson

“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

“Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.”

– Steve Martin

“One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?”

― Rachel Carson

“Wilderness to the people of America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and equilibrium.”

― Sigurd Olson

“The West – the very words go straight to that place of the heart where Americans feel the spirit of pride in their western heritage – the triumph of personal courage over any obstacle, whether nature or man.”

—John Wayne

"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity, and by these I shall not regulate my propositions. And some see no nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself."

–William Blake