This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere: the dew is never all dried at once: a shower is forever falling, vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.
John Muir (1838-1914) Scottish-American naturalist
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Quotations by:
Muir, John
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. One fancies a heart like our own must be beating in every crystal and cell.
John Muir (1838-1914) Scottish-American naturalist
My First Summer in the Sierra, 27 Jul. 1869 (1911)
Most of the miracles we hear of are infinitely less wonderful than the commonest of natural phenomena, when fairly seen.
John Muir (1838-1914) Scottish-American naturalist
My First Summer in the Sierra, ch. 7 “A Strange Experience,” 4 Aug 1869 (1911)
Now, a cautious mountaineer seldom takes a step on unknown ground which seems at all dangerous that he cannot retrace in case he should be stoppd by unseen obstacles ahead. This is the rule of mountaineers who live long.
John Muir (1838-1914) Scottish-American naturalist
Stickeen (1897)
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike. This natural beauty-hunger is made manifest in the little window-sill gardens of the poor, though perhaps only a geranium slip in a broken cup, as well as in the carefully tended rose and lily gardens of the rich, the thousands of spacious city parks and botanical gardens, and in our magnificent National parks.
John Muir (1838-1914) Scottish-American naturalist
The Yosemite, ch. 15 “Hetch Hetchy Valley” (1912)
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