As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
JOHN MUIRThe galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
More John Muir Quotes
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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 sun shines not on us but in us.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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Take me into the mountains.
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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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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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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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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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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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