Tag Archives: John Muir

A Stroll in the Garden

A continuation from the previous post.

Early spring. Enjoy.

Hyacinth

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Crown Imperial Fritillaria

Scilla/Squill

Lilac

Forsythia

Persian Lily/Fritillaria Persica

Phlox

Dead Nettle/Lamium

Myrtle Spurge/Euphorbia
Daffodil
Spotted Lungwort/Pulmonaria

Azalea

See the world around you!

Log Flume Heritage Site

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. -John Muir

Log Flume Heritage Site

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

Log Flume Heritage Site

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.

Log Flume Heritage Site

Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.

Log Flume Heritage Site

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

Log Flume Heritage Site

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine into trees.

Log Flume Heritage Site

From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he has made every other creature, however noxious and insignificant to us. They are earth-born companions and our fellow mortals.

Log Flume Heritage Site

I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God’s mountains.

Log Flume Heritage Site

See the world around you!

Log Flume Heritage Site

Gone Hiking – Log Flume Heritage Site

Manito Park Conservatory

Botany, the eldest daughter of medicine. -Johann Hermann Baas

Manito

Manito

Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences. -Thomas Jefferson

Manito

Manito

I wandered away on a glorious botanical and geological excursion, which has lasted nearly fifty years and is not yet completed, always happy and free, poor and rich, without thought of a diploma or of making a name, urged on and on through endless, inspiring Godful beauty. -John Muir

Manito

Manito

Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight. -John Burroughs

Manito

Manito

Flower in the crannied wall,
I pluck you out of the crannies;—
I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,
Little flower—but if I could understand
What you are, root and all, and all in all,
I should know what God and man is. — Lord Alfred Tennyson

Manito

Manito

See the world around you!

Previous Manito Posts:

Manito Park and Botanical Gardens

Manito Park and Botanical Gardens – Part 2

Manito Park and Botanical Gardens – Part 3

Manito Park and Botanical Gardens – Part 4

Walk to Wonderwood Park

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. -Henry Van Dyke

Wonderwood Park

Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. -John Muir

Wonderwood Park

I have always believed in magic. I used to run into the woods as a little kid looking for witches. But I’m not superstitious, because I m not afraid of it. I see it as something really beautiful, and I wouldn’t want to live in a world without magic. -Anya Taylor-Joy

Wonderwood Park

I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments! -Joanna Baillie

Wonderwood Park

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God. -George Washington Carver

Wonderwood Park

The woods are a place where children can go to think. Children gravitate towards these spaces. When I was a child it was nothing more than a scrubby little overhang under a rhododendron bush, but it was incredibly important to me. -Jay Griffiths

Wonderwood Park

The woods were a boon; all too often, the forest offered danger and mystery. Yet it could be liberating. If you entered that wild place on its own terms, you might be accorded wisdom. -John Burnside

Wonderwood Park

There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations. -Washington Irving

Wonderwood Park

Other Wonderwood posts:

A Stroll in the Garden

Walk to Wonderwood Park

Stay healthy.

Stay safe.

Keep smiling.

See the world around you!

Mount Rainier Part 2

The mountains are calling and I must go. – John Muir

Mount Rainier-Myrtle Falls

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Mount Rainier-marmot

Mount Rainier-marmot

Mount Rainier

You are not in the mountains. The mountains are in you. – John Muir

Mount Rainier

Mount Rainier

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it. – Andy Rooney

Mount Rainier

Yes, indeed, I did see a bear. It is the tiny black spot above the m in my watermark in the above photo. I zoomed in to try to get a closer look for all of posterity but, alas, I did not succeed.

Mount Rainier

Mount Rainier-marmot

How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof! In such places standing alone on the mountain-top it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make – leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents or piled stone – we all dwell in a house of one room – the world with the firmament for its roof – and are sailing the celestial spaces without leaving any track. — John Muir

Mount Rainier-marmot

Mount Rainier

I hope you have enjoyed this walk with me…I know I did!

Mount Rainier

Stay safe. Stay healthy.

See the world around you!

Mount Rainier Part One