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.
JOHN MUIRA part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
More John Muir Quotes
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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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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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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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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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
JOHN MUIR






