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The Mountains of California quotes

John Muir

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“It was rejoicing then in its gayest colors, untrodden, hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.” John Muir, The Mountains of California
“And in the development of these Nature chose for a tool not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries, the offspring...” John Muir, The Mountains of California
“Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.” John Muir, The Mountains of California
“With inexpressible delight you wade out into the grassy sun-lake, feeling yourself contained in one of Nature's most sacred chambers, withdrawn from the sterner influences of the mountains, secure from all intrusion, secure from yourself, free in...” John Muir, The Mountains of California
“How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!” John Muir, The Mountains of California
“Beyond the range I saw the so-called Mono Desert, lying dreamily silent in thick purple light—a desert of heavy sun-glare beheld from a desert of ice-burnished granite.” John Muir, The Mountains of California
“Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.” John Muir, The Mountains of California
“This was the alpenglow, to me one of the most impressive of all the terrestrial manifestations of God. At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed and waiting like devout...” John Muir, The Mountains of California
“Winds are advertisements of all they touch, however much or little we may be able to read them; telling their wanderings even by their scents alone.” John Muir, The Mountains of California
“In so wild and so beautiful a region was spent my first day, every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.” John Muir, The Mountains of California
“The wood is deliciously fragrant, and fine in grain and texture; it is of a rich cream-yellow, as if formed of condensed sunbeams.” John Muir, The Mountains of California

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