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.
JOHN MUIRIn drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
More John Muir Quotes
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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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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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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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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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Take me into the mountains.
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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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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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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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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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