Happy Earth Day , 2012

Another year passes.  Quotes from John Muir.


One learns that the world, though made, is yet being made

Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest.

The power of imagination makes us infinite

The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere

Lowly, gentle fellow mortals, enjoying God's sunshine

How many hearts with warm red blood in them are beating under cover of the woods, and how many teeth and eyes are shining!

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world

Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind

Happy Earth Day

Yesterday was the Birthday of John Muir. To celebrate Earth Day here are some of my favorite pictures from the last year and some quotes from Mr Muir.

"Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the worlds prizes seem nothing."

"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread"

"In every walk with nature one receives more than one seeks."

"The power of imagination makes us infinite."

"Earth has no sorrow the Earth cannot heal."

"There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.

We never know where we must go or what guides we are to get...