Road tripping from Seattle to Santa Fe! First stop- Yosemite. Yeah, so I'm basically going to just flood this post with John Muir quotes. Because this is the "outdoor quote stereotype" that works for this place....
"It is by far the grandest of all the special temples in nature i was ever permitted to enter." -john muir 1868
“This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.”
“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.”
“Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.”
“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.”
As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can".
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.”
“In God's wildness lies the hope of the world.”
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.”
“Never while anything is left of me shall this... camp be forgotten. It has fairly grown into me, not merely as memory pictures, but as part and parcel of mind and body alike.”
“Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.”
^^^Shout out to the best tour guides/ adventure inspirations!! We had a blast with you two!