8 Quotes About Yosemite

While it may be a bit of a clich�, but getting to know the local wildlife in a national park is a great way to learn about the country and its history. While visiting national parks, you’ll see an endless array of animals, plants, and anything else in between. By learning the names of the animals and plants you see in a park, you’ll be able to tell them apart from each other when you return. And that knowledge could save your life!

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I was awakened by a tremendous earthquake, and though I hadn ever before enjoyed a storm of this sort, the strange thrilling motion could not be mistaken, and I ran out of my cabin, both glad and frightened, shouting, "A noble earthquake! A noble earthquake" feeling sure I was going to learn something. John Muir
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If for a moment you are inclined to regard these taluses as mere draggled, chaotic dumps, climb to the top of one of them, and run down without any haggling, puttering hesitation, boldly jumping from boulder to boulder with even speed. You will then find your feet playing a tune, and quickly discover the music and poetry of these magnificent rock piles -- a fine lesson; and all Nature's wildness tells the same story -- the shocks and outbursts of earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers, roaring, thundering waves and floods, the silent uprush of sap in plants, storms of every sort -- each and all are the orderly beauty-making love-beats of Nature's heart. John Muir
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We don't speak of it, or react to it. Paralyzed in a reality of uncertainty and madness, this is where we are. Danielle Rohr
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The parts of my mind that apply logic and understanding had somehow abandoned me, and something primitive and instinctual took control. Danielle Rohr
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It was Chelsea who captures our plummet before it reaches the deepest parts of our vulnerability. Danielle Rohr
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The vision of this massive body of water with towering monoliths jutting straight upward to the heavens, stole our ability to think. Colors that made the wildflowers look dull, streaked up and down across the great pillars of hardened rock. The clouds and sky were mirrored in the glassy surface of the deep expanse of lake. Danielle Rohr
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As they kissed, the valley and the surrounding cliffsspun and toppled upside down. The saturated greens of the grasses, the stark white of the waterfall, and the warm grays of the cliffs merged and streamed past them in ethereal ribbons, like barely blended paint. Then the blinding blue sky bobbed back into place overhead, and the world was open and free, bursting with sublime majesty. Megan Westfield