“Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.”
― My First Summer in the Sierra
― My First Summer in the Sierra
“We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us. Our flesh-and-bone tabernacle seems transparent as glass to the beauty about us, as if truly an inseparable part of it, thrilling with the air and trees, streams and rocks, in the waves of the sun,—a part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.”
― My First Summer in the Sierra
― My First Summer in the Sierra
“In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.”
― My First Summer in the Sierra
― My First Summer in the Sierra
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