Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
JOHN MUIRWhen one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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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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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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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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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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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 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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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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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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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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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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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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