There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
JOHN MUIRLet children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
More John Muir Quotes
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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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 making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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Take me into the mountains.
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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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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
JOHN MUIR