"The cure for anything is salt water—tears, sweat, or the sea. "

Isak Dinesen [Karen Blixen]

"The wilderness holds answers to questions we have not yet learned to ask."

Nancy Newhall

"Now I know the secret of making the best persons; it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the Earth."

Walt Whitman

"The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun."

Christopher McCandless

"Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!’"

Robin Williams

"The world is incomprehensibly beautiful—an endless prospect of magic and wonder."

Ansel Adams

"The antidote to exhaustion isn’t rest. It’s nature."

Shikoba

"Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink the wild air’s salubrity."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Wilderness is not a luxury, but a necessity of the human spirit."

Edward Abbey

"To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from."

Terry Tempest Williams

"Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt."

John Muir

"I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order."

John Burroughs