Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
JOHN MUIRBeauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
JOHN MUIRRaindrops 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 MUIRThe world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
JOHN MUIRWho wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
JOHN MUIRHidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
JOHN MUIRThis is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
JOHN MUIRGod has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
JOHN MUIRAnd into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
JOHN MUIRNothing dollarable is safe.
JOHN MUIRWhen we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
JOHN MUIRThousands 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
JOHN MUIRClimb the mountains and get their good tidings.
JOHN MUIRAt the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
JOHN MUIRGo where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
JOHN MUIRIt was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
JOHN MUIRWe are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
JOHN MUIR