Category Archives: John Muir

I Think Maybe Another Week of Muir

The big orange lilies are now arrayedin all their glory of leaf and flower.Noble plants, in perfect health,Nature’s darlings.-John Muir

Sunday Morning Muir

“A thousand Yellowstone wonders are calling. Look up and down and round about you.” -John Muir Thus concludes our week of Muir!

Saturday Morning Muir

“Everything is hitched to everything else in the universe.” -John Muir

Friday Morning Muir

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to plan in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.” -John Muir

Thursday Morning Muir

“And surely all God’s people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes- all are warm with divine radiance and must have lots of fun in them.” -John Muir

Wednesday Morning Muir

“The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried up at once; a shower is always falling; vapor ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and on continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.” -John Muir

Tuesday Before-Bed Muir

Egads! I almost forgot today’s Muir! It was Cassidy’s last day of school and I got sidetracked. But here it is: “I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out until sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.” -John Muir

Monday Morning Muir

When we are with Nature, we are awake,and we discover many interesting thingsand reach many a mark we are not aiming at. -John Muir

Morning Muir

“All that the sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild.” -John Muir