fVE COULD hardly believe our senses except when 

 hungry or while father was thrashing us. 



When I was a boy in Scotland, I was fond of 

 everything that was wild, and all my life I have been 

 growing fonder and fonder of wild places and wild 

 creatures. 



Naturally inherited wildness in our blood ran free 

 on its glorious course as invincible and unstopable 

 as the stars. 



Nature saw to it that besides school lessons and 

 church lessons, some of her own lessons should be 

 learned. 



I was only leaving one university for another; the 

 Wisconsin University for the university of the wilder- 

 ness. 



In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. 

 Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts. 



— John Muir. 



