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• No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glacie
  or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening - still all is Beauty!...
• Everything is flowing -- going somewhere, animals and so- called lifeless rocks as well as water.
  Thus the snow flows fast or slow in grand beauty-making glaciers and avalanche...
• None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.
  -- John Muir, American Naturalist (1838-1914)...
• 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 alike.
  -- John Muir, American Naturalist (1838-1914)...
• Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad, whatever is done and suffered by her creatures.
  All scars she heals, whether in rocks or water or sky or hearts....
• All Nature's wildness tells the same story: the shocks and outbursts of earthquake
  volcanoes, geysers, roaring , thundering waves and floods, the silent uproot of sap in plants, storms of every sort, each and all, are the orderly, beauty-making love-beats of Nature's heart....
• If my soul could get away from this so-called prison, be granted all the list of attributes generally bestowed on spirits, my first ramble on spirit-wings would not be among the volcanoes of the moon.
  Nor should I follow the sunbeams to their sources in the sun....
• One is constantly reminded of the infinite lavishness and fertility of Nature -- inexhaustible abundance amid what seems enormous waste.
  And yet when we look into any of her operations that lie within reach of our minds, we learn that no particle of her material is wasted or worn out....
• Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands, in which one gains the advantages of both solitude and society.
  Nowhere will you find more company of a soothing peace-be- still kind....