## Metadata * Author: [[John Muir]] * ASIN: B003WUYPII * ISBN: B09WHN2NSV * Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003WUYPII ## Highlights do some forest good." — location: [88](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003WUYPII&location=88) ^ref-17786 --- he opened himself up enough to Muir to be told, in the old mountaineer's forthright manner, that he was the poorer of the two, for Muir knew how much money he needed to live well, and Harriman did not. — location: [118](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003WUYPII&location=118) ^ref-3397 --- admired until — location: [276](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003WUYPII&location=276) ^ref-51751 --- We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us. Our flesh-and-bone tabernacle seems transparent as glass to the beauty about us, as if truly an inseparable part of it, thrilling with the air and trees, streams and rocks, in the waves of the sun,—a part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal. Just now I can hardly conceive of any bodily condition dependent on food or breath any more than the ground or the sky. — location: [291](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003WUYPII&location=291) ^ref-37291 --- The great sun-gold noons, the alabaster cloud-mountains, the landscape beaming with consciousness like the face of a god. — location: [919](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003WUYPII&location=919) ^ref-41085 --- The sunsets, when the trees stood hushed awaiting their good-night blessings. Divine, enduring, unwastable wealth. — location: [920](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003WUYPII&location=920) ^ref-4000 --- after how many centuries of Nature's care planting and watering them, tucking the bulbs in snugly below winter frost, shading the tender shoots with clouds drawn above them like curtains, pouring refreshing rain, making them perfect in beauty, and keeping them safe by a thousand miracles; yet, strange to say, allowing the trampling of devastating sheep. — location: [1008](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003WUYPII&location=1008) ^ref-16183 --- So extravagant is Nature with her choicest treasures, spending plant beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea, garden and desert. And so the beauty of lilies falls on angels and men, bears and squirrels, wolves and sheep, birds and bees, but as far as I have seen, man alone, and the animals he tames, destroy these gardens. — location: [1011](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003WUYPII&location=1011) ^ref-13522 --- How can I close my eyes on so precious a night? — location: [1018](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003WUYPII&location=1018) ^ref-20174 --- Crane Flat — location: [1038](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003WUYPII&location=1038) ^ref-4051 --- It is easier to feel than to realize, or in any way explain, Yosemite grandeur. — location: [1354](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B003WUYPII&location=1354) ^ref-54678 ---