The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
JOHN MUIRAt 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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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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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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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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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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