John Muir on deep
John Muir97 quotes“In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.”
More from John Muir
On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
John MuirJohn Muir The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
John MuirJohn Muir I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
John MuirJohn Muir I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
John MuirJohn Muir Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
John MuirJohn Muir Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
John MuirJohn Muir One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
John MuirJohn Muir The mountains are calling and I must go.
John MuirJohn Muir I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
John MuirJohn Muir Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
John MuirJohn Muir 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 MuirJohn Muir And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
John MuirJohn Muir Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
John MuirJohn Muir Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
John MuirJohn Muir Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
John MuirJohn Muir All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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They bleed not in the mouth but through their ink – indelible and dark.
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MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
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