More from John Muir
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
My First Summer in the Sierra, 1869, Terry Gifford, EWDB, page 248The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
John of the Mountains (1938), journal for July 1890, p. 313No right way is easy in this rough world. We must risk our lives to save them.
Stickeen (1909), Terry Gifford, LLO, page 693
More about beauty
Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know.
John Keats1795–1821Ode on a Grecian Urn, Stanza 5. The final lines of this poem have been rendered in various ways in different editions, some placing the entire last two lines within quotation marks, others only the statement “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” …In context
Helen Keller1880–1968Letter to Rev. Phillips Brooks (8 June 1891)
