How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
JOHN MUIRFew places in this world are more dangerous than home.
More John Muir Quotes
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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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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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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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.
JOHN MUIR