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
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.
Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.
I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine into trees.
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.
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.
See the world around you!
