“A queer fellow and a jolly fellow is the grasshopper. Up the mountains...” — John Muir Quote

“A queer fellow and a jolly fellow is the grasshopper. Up the mountains he comes on excursions, how high I don't know, but at least as far and high as Yosemite tourists.”

“Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly longer than those of wood rats, while their more enduring monuments, excepting those wrought on the forests by the fires they made to improve their hunting grounds, vanish in a few centuries.”

“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”

“Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.”

“'Xen,' to me, was a necessary excursion inward, into myself. 'Mutant' is a response to it and is more extroverted.”

“I don't surf here as much as I would in Hawaii, but it's fun. You've got to want it more in New York, because you have to get a car or take the train. It's a whole excursion.”