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.
JOHN MUIRI have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
More John Muir Quotes
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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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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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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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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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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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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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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