“The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”
― John Muir
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Dandelion
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe. – John Muir
Alaska
My fire was in all its glory about midnight, and, having made a bark shed to shelter me from the rain and partially dry my clothing, I had nothing to do but look and listen and join the trees in their hymns and prayers.
– Travels in Alaska (1915) chapter 2.
Bridal Veil Falls – Skagway
Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
– Muir quoted by Samuel Hall Young in Alaska Days with John Muir (1915) chapter 7
Juneau Harbor
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
– Travels in Alaska by John Muir, 1915, chapter 1, page 5.
Jamacan Feverplant
“When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.”
― John Lennon
Red Admiral
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
― John Keats
Florida White
Gulf Frittalary
“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”
― Henry David Thoreau
Picture This by Frank 