Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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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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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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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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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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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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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
JOHN MUIR