“There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.”
—John Muir, from A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (Houghton Mifflin, 1916)
Posts tagged John Muir:
“The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”
—John Muir
“Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.”
—John Muir
Photograph: Brett Weston, Mendenhall Glacier, AK, 1973
The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.
—John Muir (via wichmanart)
“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.”
—John Muir
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