Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
JOHN MUIRHow glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
More John Muir Quotes
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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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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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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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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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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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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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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