“If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.” ~ Lyndon Baines Johnson
Listening to Mattias Klum last night at the National Geographic Live series reminded me of this quote by Johnson that I saw two summers ago while hiking through Bryce Canyon.
- Camera: Canon PowerShot A560
- Aperture: f/7.1
- Exposure: 1/640th
- Focal Length: 35mm
24th April 2012
Notes: 5
“I used to envy the father of our race, dwelling as he did in contact with the new-made fields and plants of Eden; but I do so no more, because I have discovered that I also live in ‘creation’s dawn.’ The morning stars still sing together, and the world, not yet half made, becomes more beautiful every day.” ~ John Muir
“Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.” ~ John Muir
“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
“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” ~ John Muir
“The sun shines not on us but in us.” ~ John Muir
“How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!” ~ John Muir
“God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, decease, avalanches, and a thousand tempest and floods. But he cannot same them from fools.” ~ John Muir
“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.” ~ John Muir
“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” ~ John Muir
