We thought, I want to do what John Muir did.
Quotes about muir (10 Quotes)
He told me that when (Ralph Waldo) Emerson came to California, (Muir) tried to get him to come out and camp with him, for that was the only way in which to see at their best the majesty and charm of the Sierras, ... Theodore Roosevelt An Autobiography.
Jim MacDonald, an interpretive ranger at Muir Woods who coordinates volunteers for the projects, says he has never sat through a session without hearing mechanical or human sounds. The word quiet doesn't exist, ... There is no such thing as quiet.
I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards.
I've always liked Muir without knowing quite why.
He's a spring time horse who always does his best work at this time of the year and he gave me a great thrill last March when winning that big race. Mark gets on with him well and I'm daring to hope that they will again be a winning combination in the Kim Muir.
I was advised to have a manager so that year I had one. He suggested I accept the part. So I just went on and did what they told me. It was awful (on his appearance on The Ghost and Mrs. Muir)
I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present.
To some, beauty seems but an accident of creation to Muir it was the very smile of God.
To trace the history of a river, or a raindrop, as John Muir would have done, is also to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body. In both we constantly seek and stumble on divinity, which, like the cornice feeding the lake and the spring becoming a waterfall, feeds, spills, falls, and feeds itself over and over again.