No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment.
John Muir0
Next quotes
John Muir:
Sequoia seeds have flat wings, and glint and glance in their flight like a boy's kite.John Muir:
The dispersal of juniper seeds is effected by the plum and cherry plan of hiring birds at the costJohn Muir:
During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, bJohn Muir:
In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden,John Muir:
When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.John Lewis:
I remember back in the 1960s - late '50s, really - reading a comic book called 'Martin Luther KingJohn L. Lewis:
Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog?John Lewis:
My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers.John Lewis:
My parents told me in the very beginning as a young child when I raised the question about segregatJohn Lewis:
When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white