In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
JOHN MUIRRaindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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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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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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