Chris Highland > Quotes

“Accidents in the mountains are less common than in the lowlands, and these mountain mansions are decent, delightful, even divine, places to die in, compared with the doleful chambers of civilization. Few”
― Chris Highland, Meditations of John Muir: Nature's Temple

“Religion as a key or passport to some other world has had its day; as a mere set of statements or dogmas about the Infinite mystery it has had its day.  Science makes us more and more at home in this world, and is coming more and more, to the intuitional mind, to have a religious value.  Science kills credulity and superstition, but to the well-balanced mind it enhances the feeling of wonder, of veneration, and of kinship which we feel in the presence of the marvelous universe.”
― Chris Highland, Meditations of John Burroughs

“Some days are like a rare poetic mood.  There is a felicity and an exhilaration about them from morning till night.  They are positive and fill one with celestial fire.  Other days are negative and drain one of his electricity.”
― Chris Highland, Meditations of John Burroughs