No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
JOHN MUIRNo synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
JOHN MUIROn no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
JOHN MUIRAs if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
JOHN MUIRThe world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
JOHN MUIRIt is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
JOHN MUIRThe world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
JOHN MUIRHow glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
JOHN MUIRIn God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
JOHN MUIRWhen we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
JOHN MUIRI care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
JOHN MUIRI never saw a discontented tree.
JOHN MUIRI only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
JOHN MUIRNothing truly wild is unclean.
JOHN MUIRIt seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
JOHN MUIRNight is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
JOHN MUIRThe making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
JOHN MUIR