"Yosemite Rocks" Top 5 Page for this destination Yosemite National Park Travelogue by acemj

"I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in." ~John Muir

Nature can cure your city blues . . .

"To one who has been long in city pent,
'Tis very sweet to look into the fair
And open face of heaven, - to breathe a prayer
Full in the smile of the blue firmament."

~John Keats, Sonnet XIV

With enough time, wonders are formed . . .

"Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries."
~John Muir

"Truly it may be said that the outside of a mountain is good for the inside of a man."
~George Wherry

"To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life."
~John Burroughs

"Any man that walks the mead
In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find
A meaning suited to his mind."
~Alfred Tennyson

"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads."
- Henry David Thoreau

"Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity; and that mountian parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life."
- John Muir