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Quotation from Our National Parks by John Muir
“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.”
Our National Parks, Chapter I (Project Gutenberg #60929)
The opening argument of the book, on the new American taste for wilderness.
Citation: "Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life." — John Muir, Our National Parks, Chapter I (Project Gutenberg #60929). (id our-national-parks-q1)
Portrait: John Muir 1912, Underwood & Underwood, Public domain.
