I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
JOHN MUIRHow glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
More John Muir Quotes
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Wildness is a necessity.
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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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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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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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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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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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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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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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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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