One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
JOHN MUIRHandle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
More John Muir Quotes
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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.
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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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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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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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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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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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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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