Some quotes

I've been reading a collection of John Muir's work ("Nature Writings") and I pulled out some good quotes from what I've read so far. So, for anybody who reads this and is even remotely interested, here they are:

On poison oak: "Like most other things not apparently useful to man, it has few friends, and the blind question, "why was it made?" goes on and on with never a guess that first of all it might have been made for itself." ~John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra

"Here, we are camped for the night, our big fire, heaped high with rosiny logs and branches, is blazing like a sunrise, gladly giving back the light slowly sifted from the sunbeams of centuries of summers; and in the glow of that old sunlight how impressively surrounding objects are brought forward in relief against the outer darkness!" ~John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra

"No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself." ~John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra