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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!...
• 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....
• How infinitely superior to our physical senses are those of the mind!
  The spiritual eye sees not only rivers of water but of air....
• Range of Light: Looking eastward from the summit of Pacheco Pass one shining morning, a landscape was displayed that after all my wanderings still appears as the most beautiful I have ever beheld.
  At my feet lay the Great Central Valley of California, level and flowery, like a lake of pure sunshine, forty or fifty miles wide, five hundred miles long, one rich furred garden of yellow Compositae....
• 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....
• And all that the Lorax left here in this mess was a small pile of rocks with the one word, "unless.
  Whatever THAT meant, well, I just couldn't guess....
• Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds or the music of water written in river-lines?
  -- John Muir, American Naturalist (1838-1914)...
• Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
  The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves....
• 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....