One and the same

January 10, 2021 / Tracy Abell

Backyard garden. August 12, 2020

When we try to pick out anything by itself,
we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. ~ John Muir

Infinite storm of beauty

December 29, 2020 / Tracy Abell / 1 Comment

Uncompahgre National Forest, July 30, 2019.

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

Tree songs

November 26, 2020 / Tracy Abell / 2 Comments

Bockman Campground, State Forest State Park. June 12, 2019

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. ~ John Muir

Desert Treasure

July 2, 2020July 2, 2020 / Tracy Abell

Portal, Arizona. May 15, 2019.

So extraordinary is Nature with her choicest treasures, spending plant beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea, garden and desert. ~John Muir

One beautiful form to another

September 3, 2019 / Tracy Abell / 2 Comments

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

Wandering trees, wandering me

August 27, 2019 / Tracy Abell

Cave Creek Canyon hike. May 13, 2019.

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind,
going and coming like ourselves,
traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day,
and through space heaven knows how fast and far! ~ John Muir