There is always more to see than is indicated on the maps. --Wendell D. Flint

To my father, who, on the high seat of the grain wagon behind his horses, told me that the land is what holds the world together. --Floyd Leslie Otter

The roads you travel so briskly lead out of dim antiquity, and you study the past chiefly because of its bearing on the living present and its promise for the future. --Lieutenant-General James G. Harbord

In nature's infinite book of secrecy a little can I read. --Shakespeare, Anthony and Cleopatra

Earth's crammed with heaven, and every common shrub afire with God, but only he who sees takes off his shoes. --Elizabeth Barrett Browning

No trail too steep; no day too long. --Norman Norris, forest service supervisor

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is today. --Chinese proverb

A few thousand years after King Solomon logged the cedars of Lebanon (as described in 1 Kings 5 of the Old Testament), the lumber industry in America hewed its boisterous way from Bangor, Maine, and Eureka, California, with little basic change in philosophy or methods. --Floyd L. Otter

Going to the woods is going home; for I suppose we came from the woods originally. --John Muir

Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries is not the goal but the exercise. --Edmund Vance Cooke

An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. --Henry David Thoreau

Oh, ’twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white, and fixed rules, and nary a shade of grey. --Glen Cook

"Good Enough" is the antithesis of perfection. --Voltaire

My duty is not affected by what others may or may not do to discharge their own. --David Weber

Intentions are ice, results are diamonds.  Both can be either hard and cold or sparkle prettily, but ice will evaporate in the warmth of a new day, whereas diamonds are forever. --Kelly McCullough

John Muir founded the Sierra Club in San Francisco in 1892 and became its first president, an office he held until his death in 1914. The club’s original articles of incorporation issued a statement of purpose: “To explore, enjoy and render accessible the mountain regions of the Pacific coast; to publish authentic information concerning them; to enlist the support and cooperation of the people and the government in preserving the forests and other natural features of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.”