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Quotation from My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir
“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.”
My First Summer in the Sierra, Chapter V (July 24) (Project Gutenberg #32540)
After a cleansing rainstorm, just before he describes Cathedral Peak as one of Nature's cathedrals.
Citation: "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, Chapter V (July 24) (Project Gutenberg #32540). (id my-first-summer-in-the-sierra-q5)
Portrait: John Muir 1912, Underwood & Underwood, Public domain.
