I have enjoyed the trees & scenery of KY exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles & miles of beauty… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give… — John Muir Copy Share Image
In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others — John Muir Copy Share Image
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“Everybody needs beauty...places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The coniferous forests of the Yosemite Park, and of the Sierra in general, surpass all others of their kind in America, or… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The body seems to feel beauty when exposed to it as it feels the campfire or sunshine, entering not by the eyes… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“Our flesh-and-bone tabernacle seems transparent as glass to the beauty about us, as if truly an inseparable part of it, thrilling with… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Many of Nature's finest lessons are to be found in her storms, and if careful to keep in right relations with them,… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more… — John Muir Copy Share Image
So extraordinary is Nature with her choicest treasures, spending plant beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea,… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I have enjoyed the trees and scenery of Kentucky exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles and miles of beauty… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Fresh beauty opens one's eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death. ... Let children walk with nature, let them see… — John Muir Copy Share Image
One is constantly reminded of the infinite lavishness and fertility of Nature-inexhaustible abundance amid what seems enormous waste. And yet when we… — John Muir Copy Share Image
All the wild world is beautiful, and it matters but little where we go, to highlands or lowlands, woods or plains, on… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I used to envy the father of our race, dwelling as he did in contact with the new-made fields and plants of… — John Muir Copy Share Image
To the sane and free it will hardly seem necessary to cross the continent in search of wild beauty, however easy the… — John Muir Copy Share Image
No words will ever describe the exquisite beauty and charm of this mountain park – Nature’s landscape garden at once tenderly beautiful… — John Muir Copy Share Image
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other… — John Muir Copy Share Image
No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain - a magic wand in Nature's hand - every devout… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot. — John Muir Copy Share
During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half… — John Muir Copy Share
...full of God's thoughts, a place of peace and safety amid the most exalted grandeur and enthusiastic action, a new song, a place of… — John Muir Copy Share
“Here are the roots of all the life of the valleys, and here more simply than elsewhere is the eternal flux of nature manifested.” — John Muir Copy Share
Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue. — John Muir Copy Share
Long, blue, spiky-edged shadows crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first scarce discernible, gradually deepened and suffused every mountain-top, flushing… — John Muir Copy Share
“This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor… — John Muir Copy Share
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. — John Muir Copy Share
In studying the fate of our forest king, we have thus far considered the action of purely natural causes only; but, unfortunately, man is… — John Muir Copy Share
The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted.… — John Muir Copy Share
Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the… — John Muir Copy Share
As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and… — John Muir Copy Share
