Bernheim Fall 2018
" The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. " John Muir
" How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains ! " John Muir
" Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God." John Muir
" When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty. " John Muir "
" God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools." John Muir
" Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you. " John Muir
" Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life." John Muir
" I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God. " John Muir
" Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed - chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones." John Muir
" I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do." John Muir
" Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean." John Muir
" The power of imagination makes us infinite." John Muir
"Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another. " John Muir
" The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted. The whole continent was a garden, and from the beginning, it seemed to be favored above all the other wild parks and gardens of the globe. " John Muir
" The practical importance of the preservation of our forests is augmented by their relations to climate, soil and streams. " John Muir
" There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords. " John Muir
" The mountains are calling and I must go." John Muir
“Most people are on the world, not in it. " John Muir
“Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.” 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
“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.” John Muir
“There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties” John Muir
" 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.” John Muir
Its amazing that during one of Bernheims most radiant times benches remain available. What a wonderful place to clear our senses of drama and reboot into the vitality of life itself.