112 pages, 5.5 x 8.5,
extensive cross-
referenced index.
ISBN: 0-944220-02-9
$12.95

John Muir, In His Own Words
A Book of Quotations
Compiled and Edited by Peter Browning

"Earth has no sorrow that earth cannot heal."

The best of John Muir—332 quotations, the distillation of his thought, the essence of his beliefs. Muir was the foremost conservationist of his time—nature writer, social critic, realist, a romantic, a visionary.

"A long-needed collection that features an excellent subject index. Painstaking bibliographic references make this an invaluable addition to one's Muir library." (Yosemite Association.)

No single quotation can possibly serve to illuminate his philosophy,
but if asked for a succinct statement of his beliefs, Muir might have said:

"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks."

• "How narrow we selfish, conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!"
• "The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness."
• "The battle we have fought, and are still fighting . . . is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong, and we cannot expect to see the end of it."
• "Sheep are driven into Hetch Hetchy every spring, about the same time that a nearly equal number of tourists are driven into Yosemite; another coincident which is remarkably suggestive."

For more information, see:  Contents, Introduction.   Ordering information.