Long, blue, spiky-edged shadows crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first scarce discernible, gradually deepened and suffused every mountain-top, flushing the glaciers and the harsh crags above them. This was the alpenglow, to me the most impressive of all the terrestrial manifestations of God. At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed. β¨ John Muir (1968). South of Yosemite
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- God never made an ugly landscape. All that sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild. β¨ John Muir, Peter Browning (1988). John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations, p.58, Great West B β¦ βΆ
- Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings. β¨ John Muir (2013). John Muir: Spiritual Writings, p.64, Orbis Books
- The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. β¨ John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). The Wilderness World of John Muir, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty in β¦ βΆ
- These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God of the mountains, lift them to the Almighty Doll β¦ βΆ
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