Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Muir Woods, 10-17-11





I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings. - Gustave Flaubert




I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up towards the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself. - Edward Steichen




A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart. - Hal Borland




I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirit of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes. - e.e. cummings






Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. - George Bernard Shaw




I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. - Hamlin Garland


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