John Muir Quotes on Beauty (4 Quotes)

Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot defend themselves or run away. Andfew destroyers of trees ever plant any nor can planting avail much towardrestoring our grand aboriginal giants. It took more than three thousandyears to make some of the oldest of the Sequoias, trees that are stillstanding in perfect strength and beauty, waving and singing in the mightyforests of the Sierra.

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with allother stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.

To some, beauty seems but an accident of creation to Muir it was the very smile of God.

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.