Posts tagged ‘John Muir’
Weekly Photo Challenge: Beyond
The beauty of the Sierras that John Muir loved . . . at Lake Tahoe.
Everyone needs beauty as well as bread, places to play and pray, where nature heals and gives strength to body and soul alike.
- John Muir
A Thought on the Necessity of Beauty from John Muir
Jesus told us that we cannot live on bread alone. John Muir may not have been thinking about Jesus’ words when he wrote the following, but he certainly had the wisdom of the Spirit of Creation when he wrote:
Everyone needs beauty as well as bread, places to play and pray, where nature heals and gives strength to body and soul alike.
-John Muir
Looking up at the redwoods in Muir Woods
We Need Beauty
Lake Shealor, in the Sierras
Creation – Poetry – Music – Art
You could add the ways that beauty preaches to you, and what it says.
According to John Muir, “Everyone needs beauty as well as bread, places to play and pray, where nature heals and gives strength to body and soul alike.”
