Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
JOHN MUIRYet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
JOHN MUIRI have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
JOHN MUIRNight is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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 MUIRBetween every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
JOHN MUIRThe rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
JOHN MUIROne must labor for beauty as for bread.
JOHN MUIRIn our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
JOHN MUIRSpring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
JOHN MUIRIt seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
JOHN MUIRNothing dollarable is safe.
JOHN MUIRThe sun shines not on us but in us.
JOHN MUIRI never saw a discontented tree.
JOHN MUIREverybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
JOHN MUIRIn every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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 MUIR