I learned about John Muir from the National Parks documentary by Ken Burns. So I did some reading about Muir, took a dozen of his quotes, and matched them up to pictures from my trips to Zion and Rocky Mountain National Parks.
9. “ When one tugs at a single thing in nature,
”
he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
10. “ I only went out for a walk and
finally concluded to stay out till
sundown, for going out,
I found, was really going in.
”
11. “ God has cared for these trees,
saved them from drought,
disease, avalanches, and a
thousand tempests and floods.
But he cannot save them from
fools.
”
12. “ Between every
two pines
is a doorway to a
new world. ”
13. I used to envy
the father of our race,
dwelling as he did
n contact with
i
the new-made fields and
plants of Eden;
but I do so no more,
because
I have discovered
that I also live in “creation's dawn.”
The morning stars still sing together,
and the world,
not yet half made, becomes more
beautiful every day.