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 MUIRAs age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
More John Muir Quotes
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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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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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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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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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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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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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
JOHN MUIR






