John Muir in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations

"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.) If asked for a succinct statement of his beliefs, Muir might have replied:"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks."