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.
Most people are on the world, not in it. - have no conscious
sympathy or relationship to anything about them - undiffused,
separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone,
touching but separate.
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest
wilderness.
The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of
glaciers, and of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers,
prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the
world, have come down from the mountains.
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.
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to
everything else in the Universe.
- All from John Muir, 1838 - 1914
awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods.
Wash your spirit clean.
Most people are on the world, not in it. - have no conscious
sympathy or relationship to anything about them - undiffused,
separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone,
touching but separate.
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest
wilderness.
The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of
glaciers, and of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers,
prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the
world, have come down from the mountains.
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.
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to
everything else in the Universe.
- All from John Muir, 1838 - 1914
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