Over the summit, I saw the so-called Mono desert lying dreamily silent in the thick, purple light -- a desert of heavy sun-glare beheld from a desert of ice-burnished granite. β¨ John Muir (1997). Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays, p.348, Library of America
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- 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. β¨ John Muir (1997). Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Yout β¦ βΆ
- 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. β¨ John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). The Wi β¦ βΆ
- I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong. β¨ John Muir (2015). STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoir β¦ βΆ
- How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation! β¨ John Muir (2010). The Wilderness Journeys, Canongate Books
- So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything. β¨ John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). John Mui β¦ βΆ
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