We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
JOHN MUIRWhen we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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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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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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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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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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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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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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