I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
JOHN MUIRHidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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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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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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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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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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I 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.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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