Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
JOHN MUIRThe sun shines not on us but in us.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Take me into the mountains.
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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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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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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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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.
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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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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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