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"I saw a glade.

It had a lush fir tree at the far side and a knoll in the center covered in bright, almost luminous green moss.

The rays of the afternoon sun slanted against the blue- black green of the pine forest.

The little roof of visible sky was perfectly blue.

The whole picture had a completeness, an all-there quality of such dense power that it stopped me in my tracks.

I went to the edge and then, softly, as though into a magical or holy place, to the center, where I sat, then lay down with my cheek against the freshness of the moss.

It is here, I thought, and I felt the anxiety that colored my life fall away." - Jean Liedloff


Chinese charater for the respect of nature

"People talk about creation as a remote fact of history.

Creation was not an act; it is a process.

It is going on today as much as it ever.

And Nature is not in a hurry..."



I followed the Mono Trail up the eastern rim of the basin nearly to its summit, then turned off southward to a small shallow valley that extends to the edge of the Yosemite, which we reached about noon, and encamped.

After lunch I made haste to high ground, and from the top of the ridge on the west side of Indian Canyon gained the noblest view of the summit peaks I have ever yet enjoyed.

Nearly all the upper basin of the Merced was displayed, with its sublime domes and canyon, dark up sweeping forests, and glorious array of white peaks deep in the sky, every feature glowing, radiating beauty that pours into our flesh and bones like heat rays from fire.

Sunshine over all; no breath of wind to stir the brooding calm.

Never before had I seen so glorious a landscape, so boundless an affluence of sublime mountain beauty.



"For the mountains may move and the hills disappear,
but even then my faithful love for you will remain."

Isaiah 54:10


Ḉhri§t Ḉon§ḉiou§ne§§ answered,

"Your faith is too small.
I bring you Truth,
if your faith is as big as a mustard seed,
you can say to this mountain,
'Move from here to there,' and it will move.
All things will be possible for you."

Matthew 17:20



The most extravagant description I might give of this view to anyone who has not seen similar landscapes with his own eyes would not so much as hint its grandeur and the spiritual glow that covered it.

I shouted and gesticulated in a wild burst of ecstasy to the astonishment of St. Bernard Carlo, who came running up to me, manifesting in his intelligent eyes a puzzled concern that was ludicrous, bringing me to my senses.

A brown bear, too, it would appear, had been a spectator of the show I had made of myself, for I had gone but a few yards when I started one from a thicket of brush.

He evidently considered me dangerous, for he ran away very fast, tumbling over the tops of the tangled manzanita bushes in his haste.

Carlo drew back, with his ears depressed as if afraid, and kept looking me in the face, as if expecting me to pursue and shoot, for he had seen many a bear battle in his day.

Following the ridge, which made a gradual descent to the south, I came at length to the brow of that massive cliff that stands between Indian Canyon and Yosemite Falls, and here the far famed valley came suddenly into view throughout almost its whole extent.

The noble walls - sculptured into endless variety of domes and gables, spires and battlements and plain mural precipices - all a tremble with the thunder tones of the falling water.

The level bottom seemed to be dressed like a garden - sunny meadows here and there, and groves of pine and oak; the river of Mercy sweeping in majesty through the midst of them and flashing back the sunbeams.

The great Tissiack, or Half-Dome, rising at the upper end of the valley to a height of nearly a mile, is nobly proportioned and life-like, the most impressive of all the rocks, holding the eye in devout admiration, calling it back again and again from falls or meadows, or even the mountains beyond, marvelous in sheer dizzy depth and sculpture, types of endurance.

Thousands of years have they stood in the sky exposed to rain, snow, frost, earthquake and avalanche, yet they still wear the bloom of youth.

I rambled along the valley rim to the westward; most of it is rounded off on the very brink, so that it is not easy to find places where one may look clear down the face of the wall to the bottom.



wise men listen

Chinese charater for nature lover

"It seems supernatural but only because it is not understood. Anyhow, it seems silly to make so much of it, while the natural and common is more truly marvelous and mysterious than the so-called supernatural. Indeed most of the miracles we hear of are infinitely less wonderful than the commonest of natural phenomena, when fairly seen." - John Muir


When such places were found, and I had cautiously set my feet and drawn my body erect, I could not help fearing a little that the rock might split off and let me down, and what a down! - more than three thousand feet.

Still my limbs did not tremble, nor did I feel the least uncertainty as to the reliance to be placed on them.

My only fear was that a flake of the granite, which in some places showed joints more or less open and running parallel with the face of the cliff, might give way. After withdrawing from such places, excited with the view I had got, I would say to myself, "Now don't go out on the verge again."

In the face of Yosemite scenery cautious remonstrance is vain; under its spell one's body appears to go where it likes with a will over which we appear to have scarce any control.

After a mile or so of this memorable cliff work I approached Yosemite Creek, admiring its easy, graceful, confident gestures as it comes bravely forward in its narrow channel, singing the last of its mountain songs on its way to its fate - a few rods more over the shining granite, then down half a mile in showy foam to another world, to be lost in the Merced, where climate, vegetation, inhabitants, all are different.

Emerging from its last gorge, it glides in wide lace - like rapids down a smooth incline into a pool where it appears to rest and compose its gray, agitated waters before taking the grand plunge, then slowly slipping over the lip of the pool basin, it descends another glossy slope with rapidly accelerated speed to the brink of the tremendous cliff, and with sublime, fateful confidence springs out free in the air.



Brain quickly yells 'Stop!'



I took off my shoes and stockings, working my way cautiously alongside the rushing flood, keeping my feet and hands pressed firmly on polished rock.

The booming, roaring circumstances, I crept down safely to the little ledge, got my heels well planted on it, then shuffled in a horizontal direction twenty or thirty feet until close to the out plunging current, which, by the time it had descended thus far, was already white.

Here I obtained a perfectly free view down into the heart of the snowy, chanting throng of comet - like streamers, into which the body of the fall soon separates.

While perched on that narrow niche I was not distinctly conscious of danger.

The tremendous grandeur of the fall in form and sound and motion, acting at close range, smothered the sense of fear, and in such places one's body takes keen care for safety on its own account.



"When we try to pick out any one thing we
find it hitched to everything in the Universe."


How long I remained down there, or how I returned, I can hardly tell.

Anyhow I had a glorious time, and got back to camp about dark, enjoying triumphant exhilaration soon followed by dull weariness.

Hereafter I'll try to keep from such extravagant, nerve straining places.

Yet such a day is well worth venturing for.

My first view of the High Sierra, first view looking down into Yosemite, the death song of Yosemite Creek, and its flight over the vast cliff, each one of these is of itself enough for a great life long landscape fortune - a most memorable day of days - enjoyment enough to kill if that were possible.

John Muir, from My First Summer in the Sierras





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