Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
JOHN MUIRI only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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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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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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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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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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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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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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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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I never saw a discontented tree.
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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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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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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