I'll Take My Men on the Rocks, Please

 “The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us. Thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing. The trees wave and the flowers bloom in our bodies as well as our souls, and every bird song, wind song, and tremendous storm song of the rocks in the heart of the mountains is our song, our very own, and sings our love.” 

“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,—part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.” 

~John Muir

I think this photo set would go well with today's Music

Loving Nature Naturally: 071618

“I only went out for a walk 

and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, 

for going out, I found, 

was really going in.”

~John Muir 

Loving Nature Naturally: 071018

by Studio MG photography

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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grass and gentians of glacier meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of Nature's darlings. Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like autumn leaves. As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but Nature's sources never fail.

~John Muir