Lie down among the pines for a while, then get to plain pure white love-work ... to help humanity and other mortals and the Lord.
John MuirThere is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.
John MuirWhen I first caught sight of (Mount Shasta) over the braided folds of the Sacramento Valley I was fifty miles away and afoot, alone and weary. Yet all my blood turned to wine, and I have not been weary since.
John MuirIf I should be fated to walk no more with Nature, be compelled to leave all I most devoutly love in the wilderness, return to civilization and be twisted into the characterless cable of society, then these sweet, free, cumberless rovings will be as chinks and slits on life's horizon, through which I may obtain glimpses of the treasures that lie in God's wilds beyond my reach.
John Muir