There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
JOHN MUIRWe are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
More John Muir Quotes
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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