I learned about John Muir from the National Parks documentary by Ken Burns. So I did some reading about Muir, took a dozen of his quotes, and matched them up to pictures from my trips to Zion and Rocky Mountain National Parks.

1. 12! of my favorite quotes
from
John Muir!
“The mountains are calling, !
and I must go.”!

2. “ 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.”

3. “
In every walk with
Nature one receives
far more than he
seeks.
”

4. “
The clearest way
into the Universe is
through a forest
wilderness.
”

5. “ Climb the
mountains
and get
their good
”
tidings.

6. “ The world is big and I
want to have a good
look at it before it
gets dark.
”

7. “ How glorious a greeting
the sun gives the
mountains!
”

8. “ The sun shines not
on us but in us.
”

9. “ When one tugs at a single thing in nature,
”
he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

10. “ I only went out for a walk and
finally concluded to stay out till
sundown, for going out,
I found, was really going in.
”

11. “ God has cared for these trees,
saved them from drought,
disease, avalanches, and a
thousand tempests and floods.
But he cannot save them from
fools.
”

12. “ Between every
two pines
is a doorway to a
new world. ”

13. I used to envy
the father of our race,
dwelling as he did
n contact with
i
the new-made fields and
plants of Eden;
but I do so no more,
because
I have discovered
that I also live in “creation's dawn.”
The morning stars still sing together,
and the world,
not yet half made, becomes more
beautiful every day.