Showing posts with label John Muir: In His Own Words. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Muir: In His Own Words. Show all posts
Thursday, November 2, 2017

A Minute Meditation

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No. 224 I never saw a discontented tree.  They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far a...
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Monday, July 24, 2017

A Minute Meditation

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No. 227 In God's wildness lies the hope of the world--the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness.  The galling harness of civil...
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Friday, July 7, 2017

A Minute Meditation

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No. 225 The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.   -- John Muir -- In His Own Words  This sounds strange t...
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Wednesday, April 5, 2017

John Muir: Destruction or Creation?

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No. 66 How lavish is Nature, building, pulling down, creating, destroying, chasing every material particle from form to form, ever chang...
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Tuesday, February 21, 2017

A Minute Meditation

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No. 65 Reading these grand mountain manuscripts displayed through every vicissitude of heat and cold, calm and storm, upheaving volcanoe...
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Thursday, November 24, 2016

John Muir: life in the mountains

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The following is an excerpt from John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir. 79 "These beautiful days must enrich...
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Wednesday, September 21, 2016

John Muir: immortality, sort of anyway

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94 Bears are made of the same dust as we, and breathe the same winds and drink of the same waters.  A bear's days are warmed by the sa...
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Saturday, August 20, 2016

A Minute Meditation

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At one point in his stay in the Sierras, John Muir got a job on a sheep ranch.  This resulted in the following observation, which may or may...
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Wednesday, August 3, 2016

A Minute Meditation

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No. 63 When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe... -- John Muir -- from John ...
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