“Fresh beauty opens one's eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets our steps prevents its being absorbed and appreciated. It is a good thing, therefore, to make short excursions now and then to the bottom of the sea among dulse and cora…”— John Muir, amazon.comTagged: beauty, Coral, Mountaintops, scenery, Nature
“We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men; but it never occurred to me until this storm-day, while swinging in the wind, that trees are travelers, in the ordinary sense. They make many journeys, not very extensive ones, it is true; but our own little comes and goes are only little more tha…”— John Muir, amazon.comTagged: Milky Way, Storms
“Winds are advertisements of all they touch, however much or little we may be able to read them; telling their wanderings even by their scents alone.”— John Muir, amazon.comTagged: Wind, advertisements
“With inexpressible delight you wade out into the grassy sun-lake, feeling yourself contained in one of Nature's most sacred chambers, withdrawn from the sterner influences of the mountains, secure from all intrusion, secure from yourself, free in the universal beauty. And notwithstanding the scene i…”— John Muir, amazon.comTagged: Love, Nature, Mountains, Spiritual
“Accidents in the mountains are less common than in the lowlands, and these mountain mansions are decent, delightful, even divine, places to die in, compared with the doleful chambers of civilization. Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain-pass…”— John Muir, amazon.comTagged: Mountains, Lowlands, Mountain Passes, civilization, deadly
“Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries, the offspring of the sun and sea.”— John Muir, amazon.comTagged: Nature, Earthquake, lightning, Rain, Sun
“When I first enjoyed this superb view, one glowing April day, from the summit of the Pacheco Pass, the Central Valley, but little trampled or ploughed as yet, was one furred, rich sheet of golden composite, and the luminous wall of the mountains shone in all its glory. Then it seemed to me the Sierr…”— John Muir, amazon.comTagged: Sierra, Pacheco Pass, Central Valley, Range of Light, Nevada
“Even the sick should try these so-called dangerous passes, because for every unfortunate they kill, they cure a thousand.”— John Muir, amazon.comTagged: Mountain Passes, danger
“Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.”— John Muir, amazon.comTagged: Raindrops, rainbow, Sky, Nature
“We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.”— John Muir, amazon.comTagged: Together, Interconnectedness, Milky Way
“How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!”— John Muir, amazon.comTagged: sunrise, Mountains
“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.”— John Muir, amazon.comTagged: Mountains, Mountain Climbing, Nature, Peace, Energy