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" Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them... may we be filled with the Holy Ghost. "
John Muir
Only
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" During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half warm enough until Emerson came. I had read his essays, and felt sure that of all men he would best interpret the sayings of these noble mountains and trees. Nor was my faith weakened when I met him in Yosemite. "
John Muir
Warm
Trees
Best
" As soon as a redwood is cut down or burned, it sends up a crowd of eager, hopeful shoots, which, if allowed to grow, would in a few decades attain a height of a hundred feet, and the strongest of them would finally become giants as great as the original tree. "
John Muir
Grow
Tree
Great
" The coniferous forests of the Yosemite Park, and of the Sierra in general, surpass all others of their kind in America, or indeed the world, not only in the size and beauty of the trees, but in the number of species assembled together, and the grandeur of the mountains they are growing on. "
John Muir
Together
Beauty
Kind
" I suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things, they had to give place to better cattle, though the change might have been made without barbarous wickedness. "
John Muir
Need
Place
Better
" I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. "
John Muir
Fast
Far
Nature
" Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another. "
John Muir
Work
Beautiful
Nature
" Sequoia seeds have flat wings, and glint and glance in their flight like a boy's kite. "
John Muir
Like
Wings
Boy
" A queer fellow and a jolly fellow is the grasshopper. Up the mountains he comes on excursions, how high I don't know, but at least as far and high as Yosemite tourists. "
John Muir
Mountains
Yosemite
Far
" Every other civilized nation in the world has been compelled to care for its forests, and so must we if waste and destruction are not to go on to the bitter end, leaving America as barren as Palestine or Spain. "
John Muir
America
World
Care
" How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society. "
John Muir
Earthquakes
How
Society
" One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man. "
John Muir
Temple
Heart
Man
" In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times. "
John Muir
Start
Wild
Travel
" There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords. "
John Muir
Control
Power
May
" Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you. "
John Muir
Nature
Water
Youth
" Beetles and butterflies are sometimes restricted to small areas. Each mountain in a range, and even the different zones of a mountain, may have its own peculiar species. But the house-fly seems to be everywhere. I wonder if any island in mid-ocean is flyless. "
John Muir
Mountain
Island
Small
" Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature's forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle. "
John Muir
Home
Nature
Struggle
" Here ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again. "
John Muir
Glory
Light
Memorable
" From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he has made every other creature, however noxious and insignificant to us. They are earth-born companions and our fellow mortals. "
John Muir
Earth
Creator
Us
" All the world lies warm in one heart, yet the Sierra seems to get more light than other mountains. The weather is mostly sunshine embellished with magnificent storms, and nearly everything shines from base to summit - the rocks, streams, lakes, glaciers, irised falls, and the forests of silver fir and silver pine. "
John Muir
World
Mountains
Heart
" A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. "
John Muir
Enthusiasm
Silent
Storm
" The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. "
John Muir
Forest
Universe
Wilderness
" Under the Timber and Stone Act of 1878, which might well have been called the 'Dust and Ashes Act,' any citizen of the United States could take up one hundred and sixty acres of timber land and, by paying two dollars and a half an acre for it, obtain title. "
John Muir
Two
Well
Ashes
" To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world. "
John Muir
Most
Alaska
Wilderness
" How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! "
John Muir
Inspirational
Sun
Mountains
" I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God's mountains. "
John Muir
Beauty
Mountains
Nature
" Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. "
John Muir
Soul
Health
Nature
" Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. "
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Mountain
Environmental
Heart
" When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent. "
John Muir
Continent
Part
California
" Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need - not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment. "
John Muir
Enjoy Life
Good
Life
" I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God. "
John Muir
Life
Rest
Devote