The night breeze is cool, for all day we have been climbing into the upper sky, the home of the cloud mountains we so long have admired.
Where these words come from
- Lots of sources credit John Muir with this, and they agree with each other. The book or the speech it first came from hasn't turned up yet.
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32540
More from John Muir
See allIn every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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John MuirEvery tree calls for special admiration.John MuirBeauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.John MuirNature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.John MuirClimb the mountains and get their good tidings.John MuirEvery rock, mountain, stream, plant, lake, lawn, forest, garden, bird, beast, insect seems to call and invite us to come and learn something of its history and relationship.John MuirMore on nature
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Lao TzuClouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.
Rabindranath TagoreThe creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAll art is but imitation of nature.
SenecaA violent wind does not outlast the morning; a squall of rain does not outlast the day. Such is the course of Nature.Lao TzuIn wildness is the preservation of the world.
Henry David Thoreau
Lao TzuClouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.Rabindranath TagoreThe creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.Ralph Waldo EmersonAll art is but imitation of nature.SenecaA violent wind does not outlast the morning; a squall of rain does not outlast the day. Such is the course of Nature.Lao TzuIn wildness is the preservation of the world.Henry David Thoreau