![]() “There is no better living space than the one without walls in the great outdoors.” – Unknown #137.“You are to make up your mind whether it is to be God or man. “Whatever form it takes, camping is earthy, soul-enriching and character building, and there can be few such satisfying moments as having your tent pitched and the smoke rising from your campfire as the golden sunsets on the horizon – even if it’s just for a fleeting moment before the rain spoils everything.” – Pippa Middleton #136. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.” – Alice Walker #135. “In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. I thought, ‘This is what it is to be happy.'” – Sylvia Plath #134. “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery. “Sleep under a blanket of stars, and your heart will forever be kept warm by your love of life.” -Anthony T. “The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition.” – Unknown #132. “In a cool solitude of trees, where leaves and birds a music spin, mind that was weary is at ease, new rhythms in the soul begin.” – William Kean Seymour #131. I love to camp.” – Sarah Wayne Callies #130. “The rite of passage of learning to build a fire that will burn all night with one match is not an insignificant one in my husband’s family, and I grew up camping and backpacking. Sometimes a fire built on a hill will bring interested people to your campfire.” – Unknown #129. “You don’t have to say everything to be a light. “And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.” – Unknown #128. “Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight a home, a teacher, a companion.” – Lorraine Anderson #127. ![]() “I just want to live in a world of mountains, coffee, campfires, cabins, and golden trees, and run around with a camera and notebook, learning the inner workings of everything real.” – Victoria Erickson #126. The leaf sent me from China is for Cecelia. I will write again when I return from Kings River Canyon. ![]() Galloway who though shut out from sunshine yet dwells in Light. My love to you all, David and the children and Mrs. The mountains are calling and I must go, and I will work on while I can, studying incessantly. In the mean time I write occasionally for the Overland Monthly, but neither these magazine articles nor my first book will form any finished part of the scientific contribution that I hope to make. The Scotch are slow, but some day I will have the results of my mount mountain studies in a form in which you all will be able to read and judge of them. I will soon be off again, determined to use all the season in prosecuting my researches–will go next to Kings River a hundred miles south, then to Lake Tahoe and adjacent mountains, and in winter work in Oakland with my pen. After my icy experiences it seems strange to be down here in so warm and flowery a climate. For two weeks I explored the glaciers of the summits east of here, sleeping among the snowy mountains without blankets and with but little to eat on account of its being so inaccessible. I am weary, but resting fast sleepy, but sleeping deep and fast hungry, but eating much. I have just returned from the longest and hardest trip I have ever made in the mountains, having been gone over five weeks. One of the most famous outdoor quotes from John Muir, “The Mountains Are Calling And I Must Go”, was part of a letter he wrote to his sister Sarah dated September 3rd, 1873 while in Yosemite Valley. “The Mountains Are Calling And I Must Go” Letter To Sister Sarah ![]() “The hottest fire in a human being is ignited after leaving the living room to spend one single day in nature.” – Unknown “The woods are lovely, dark and deep…” – Robert Frost #3. It is a good thing, therefore, to make short excursions now and then to the bottom of the sea among dulse and coral or up among the clouds on mountain-tops or in balloons, or even to creep like worms into dark holes and caverns underground not only to learn something of what is going on in those out-of-the-way places but to see better what the sun sees on our return to common everyday beauty.” #2. “Fresh beauty opens one’s eyes wherever it is really seen but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets our steps prevents its being absorbed and appreciated. This is by far the longest camping quote here but it is one of my favorites because I think it is so true that when so much beauty surrounds us, we have to be deliberate to absorb it fully.
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