01c. 1876 ADOh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.John Muir / quote ↗
02c. 1876 ADThe making of the far-famed New York Central Park was opposed by even good men, with misguided pluck, perseverance, and ingenuity, but straight right won its way, and now that park is appreciated. So we confidently believe it will be with our great national parks and forest reservations.John Muir / quote ↗
03c. 1876 ADTo the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.John Muir / quote ↗
04c. 1876 ADIn all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.John Muir / quote ↗
05c. 1876 ADDuring my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half warm enough until Emerson came. I had read his essays, and felt sure that of all men he would best interpret the sayings of these noble mountains and trees. Nor was my faith weakened when I met him in Yosemite.John Muir / quote ↗
06c. 1876 ADThe coniferous forests of the Yosemite Park, and of the Sierra in general, surpass all others of their kind in America, or indeed the world, not only in the size and beauty of the trees, but in the number of species assembled together, and the grandeur of the mountains they are growing on.John Muir / quote ↗
07c. 1876 ADThe waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain - a magic wand in Nature's hand - every devout mountaineer knows its power; but the marvelous beauty value of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what poet has sung this?John Muir / quote ↗
