Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
JOHN MUIRSpring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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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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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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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 the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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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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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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