"Few people know these wonderful mountains, yet no one who goes there but comes away filled with enthusiasm for their wild and singular beauty."
~ GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL, 1909
"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 the mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life."
