How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
JOHN MUIRGo where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
More John Muir Quotes
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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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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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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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!
JOHN MUIR