plant-bloom

Updated: May 10, 2025

Thus, by forces seemingly antagonistic and destructive, Nature accomplishes her beneficent designs now a flood of fire, now a flood of ice, now a flood of water; and again in the fullness of time an outburst of organic life forest and garden, with all their wealth of fruit and flowers, the air stirred into one universal hum with rejoicing insects, a milky way of wings and petals, girdling the newborn mountain like a cloud, as if the vivifying sunbeams beating against its sides had broken into a foam of plant-bloom and bees.

John Muir - Steep Trails : California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon

Thus, by forces seemingly antagonistic and destructive, has Mother Nature accomplished her beneficent designs now a flood of fire, now a flood of ice, now a flood of water; and at length an outburst of organic life, a milky way of snowy petals and wings, girdling the rugged mountain like a cloud, as if the vivifying sunbeams beating against its sides had broken into a foam of plant-bloom and bees, as sea-waves break and bloom on a rock shore.

John Muir - The Mountains of California