"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
Sierra Animal Activists is another informal organization of Sierra Club members that is not affiliated with John Muir Lives. The views of one organization are not necessarily those of the other.