Explain Quote by John Muir

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. I…

— Ansel Adams

The coniferous forests of the Yosemite Park, and of the Sierra in general, surpass all others of their kind in America, or indeed the…

— John Muir

Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote…

— Ansel Adams

Any one who has stood upon a lofty summit and gazed over an inchoate tangle of deep canyons and cragged mountains, of sunlit lakelets…

— Bob Marshall

When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it.

— Augustus William Hare

Big rocks are envy of little sands because little sands can travel with the winds. Every littleness has its own big advantages!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I had no idea of the grandeur and vastness of the Himalayas. It is mindboggling. It makes you realize how small you are in…

— Morten Andersen

“Such apparently illogical actions are almost never inspired by a single motive. They spring from an unknown number of threads, perhaps thousands of them,…

— Miklós Bánffy

As to scenery (giving my own thought and feeling), while I know the standard claim is that Yosemite, Niagara Falls, the Upper Yellowstone and…

— Walt Whitman

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

This apple tree is not the first one I draw, but perhaps the thousandth. I feel the sap rise to its spreading branches. I…

— Frederick Franck

The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to…

— John Joly