All JOHN MUIR Quotes about “Gardens”

“One can make a day of any size and regulate the rising and setting of his own sun and the brightness of its shining.”
“When a man plants a tree, he plants himself.”
“Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of nature's darlings.”
“The finest of the glacier meadow gardens lie ...imbedded in the upper pine forests like lakes of light.”
“No words will ever describe the exquisite beauty and charm of this mountain park â€“ Natureâ€™s landscape garden at once tenderly beautiful and sublime. No wonder it draws nature-lovers from all over the world.”
“Government protection should be thrown around every wild grove and forest on the mountains, as it is around every private orchard, and the trees in public parks. To say nothing of their value as fountains of timber, they are worth infinitely more than all the gardens and parks of towns.”

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