John Muir/ More Flowers/ Father's Day 2008
There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords. ~John Muir, A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, 1916
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Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into. ~Henry Beecher, Life Thoughts, 1858
Earth laughs in flowers. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Hamatreya
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More Paths Around Town
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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 ~John Muir, 1913, in L.M. Wolfe, ed., John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, 1938
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