So extraordinary is Nature with her choicest treasures, spending plant
beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea, garden
and desert. And so the beauty of lilies falls on angels and men, bears and
squirrels, wolves and sheep, birds and bees....
-- John Muir, American Naturalist (1838-1914)
beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea, garden
and desert. And so the beauty of lilies falls on angels and men, bears and
squirrels, wolves and sheep, birds and bees....
-- John Muir, American Naturalist (1838-1914)
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- No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the
lines of the mountains with glaciers,
or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements... - Everything is flowing -- going somewhere, animals and so-
called lifeless rocks as well as water. Thus the snow... - None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.
John Muir, American Naturalist (1838... - Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in,
where nature may heal and give strength to body and... - Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad, whatever is done and suffered by
her creatures.
All scars she heals, whether in rocks or water or sky... - All Nature's wildness tells the same story: the shocks and outbursts of
earthquakes,
volcanoes, geysers, roaring , thundering waves and... - If my soul could get away from this so-called prison,
be granted all the list of attributes generally bestowed... - One is constantly reminded of the infinite lavishness and fertility of
Nature -
inexhaustible abundance amid what seems enormous waste... - Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and
weary,
nervous, wasting work of the lowlands, in which one...
