I Am Hopelessly And Forever A Mountaineer.

John Muir, Earth-planet, Universe.

To Myself, Mountains Are The Beginning And The End Of All Natural Scenery; In Them, And In The Forms Of Inferior Landscape That Lead To Them, My Affections Are Wholly Bound Up.

Our Lives Are Rounded With A Sleep.

What A Psalm The Storm Was Singing, And How Fresh The Smell Of The Washed Earth And Leaves, And How Sweet The Still Small Voices Of The Storm!

God Has To Nearly Kill Us Sometimes, To Teach Us Lessons.