But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
JOHN MUIRThe mountains are calling and I must go.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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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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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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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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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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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Learn to live like the wild animals
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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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.
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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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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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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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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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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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