Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
JOHN MUIRAs long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
More John Muir Quotes
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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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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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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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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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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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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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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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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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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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
JOHN MUIR