“All the world lies warm in one heart, yet the Sierra seems to get more light than other mountains. The weather is mostly sunshine embellished with magnificent storms, and nearly everything shines from base to summit - the rocks, streams, lakes, glaciers, irised falls, and the forests of silver fir and silver pine.”
"The world is big, and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark."
- John Muir
Awareness
"Most people are on the world, not in it – having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them."
- John Muir
Awareness
"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe."
- John Muir
Awareness
"And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul."
- John Muir
Self-awareness
"You are not in the mountains. The mountains are in you."
- John Muir
Self-awareness
"Christmas is a time when you get homesick, even when you're home."
- Carol Nelson
Nature
"We count down the days just to experience it nearly exactly as we always have. It is so comfortable, familiar and perfectly nostalgic that, frankly, we have no desire to improve upon it at all."
- Joanna Gaines
Nature
"The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood."
- Richard Paul Evans
Nature
"Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime."
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
Nature
"We count down the days just to experience it nearly exactly as we always have. It is so comfortable, familiar, and perfectly nostalgic that, frankly, we have no desire to improve upon it at all."
- Joanna Gaines
Nature