#muir

...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 beginnings abounding in first lessons of life, mountain building, eternal, invincible, unbreakable order; with sermons in stone, storms, trees, flowers, and animals brimful with humanity. ↗

— John Muir

#yosemite #life

When we tug at a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world. ↗

— John Muir

#nature

Nothing truly wild is unclean. ↗

— John Muir

#nature #sierra-mountains #wilderness #nature

I've always liked Muir without knowing quite why. ↗

— Douglas Dunn

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I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present. ↗

— David R. Brower

#brings #countries #earth #found #friends

Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky. ↗

— John Muir

#john-muir #nature #wilderness #change

I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#dozen #editor #editors #essay #geographic

Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings. ↗

— John Muir

#fiber #harp #harp-strings #john-muir #life

...and your hair is much too long, Ronald, for a moment I thought you were Ginevra. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#ron-weasley #death

I will follow my instincts, and be myself for good or ill. ↗

— John Muir

#follow #good #ill #instinct #john