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.
JOHN MUIRBut it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
More John Muir Quotes
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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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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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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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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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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