John Muir reflections

I really enjoyed reading A Wind-Storm in the Forests and The Water-Ouzel simply because Muir had a very beautiful method of showing people the stories of Nature. His style of writing drew me into the stories he was describing about the trees and the ouzel. After reading the two articles, I was reminded that every creature on the planet has their own story and they want others to listen to their story. Muir helped prove that the trees have a story from the way they sounded in the wind and the fragrance they produced and the way they reacted during the storms. It may be thought that trees don't have stories because they don't have voices like people, but the real fact is that they do, their voice just comes in different forms. Muir also showed that the ouzel has a voice from the beautiful song it makes and all that it touches with it's beautiful voice. Muir may be border line abstract or all the way there but he helps show me the beauty of the planet and it's creatures from his writing and storytelling.

Some pieces of the articles that stood out to me were from A Wind-Storm in the Forests on page 253, "Nature has always something rare to show us, and the danger to life and limb is hardly than one would experience crouching deprecatingly beneath a roof."
and on page 254, "Nature was holding high festival, and every fiber of the most rigid giants trilled with glad excitement."

I also thought it was cool and funny that Muir capitalized the "n" in Nature.