Thousands of tired,
nerve-shaken,
over-civilized
people are beginning
to find out that going
to the mountains
is going home:
that wilderness
is a necessity....
   -- John Muir
   1838-1914

I went to the woods
because I wished
to live deliberately,
to front only
the essential facts
of life,
and see
if I could not learn
what it had to teach,
and not,
when I came to die,
discover
that I had not lived.
   -- Henry D. Thoreau
   1817-1862
   Walden:
   Where I Lived,
   & What I Lived For,
   1854

Going to the woods
is going home,
for I suppose
we came from
the woods originally.
   -- John Muir
  1838-1914

The clearest way
into the universe
is through
a forest wilderness.
   -- John Muir
   1838-1914
   John of the Mountains,
   1938

For my part
I travel
not to go anywhere,
but to go.
I travel for
travel's sake.
The great affair
is to move.
   -- Robert L. Stevenson
  1850-1894
  Travels with a Donkey,
  1878

Travel teaches toleration.
   -- Benjamin Disraeli
  1804-1881
  Contarini Fleming

He that travels much
knows much.
   -- Thomas Fuller
   1608-1661
   Gnomologia

The world
is a great book,
of which
they who never stir
from home
read only
a page.
   -- Saint Augustine
   354-430 A.D