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Meadows Quotes by John Muir
- How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! To behold this alone is worth the pains of any excursion a thousand times over. The…
- The finest of the glacier meadow gardens lie ...imbedded in the upper pine forests like lakes of light.
- No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...Awful in stern, immovable majesty, how softly…
- Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy…
- Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods…
More Meadows Quotes
- Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air. — Georges Bernanos
- We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and… — Henry David Thoreau
- You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- Let everything in creation draw you to God. Refresh your mind with some innocent recreation and needful rest, if it were only… — Paul of the Cross
- The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing in tufts… — William C. Bryant
- Americans are less mystical about what produced their inland or meadow courses; they are the product of the bulldozerm rotary ploughs, mowers,… — Alistair Cooke
- The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear. — William C. Bryant
- Joys come from simple and natural things: mists over meadows, sunlight on leaves, the path of the moon over water. — Sigurd F. Olson
- The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The boy and girl going hand in hand through a meadow; the mother washing her baby; the sweet simple things in life.… — Edward Steichen
- Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side,… — Mark Helprin
- Next time a sunrise steals your breath or a meadow of flowers leave you speechless, remain that way. Say nothing, and listen… — Max Lucado