Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
JOHN MUIRTake me into the mountains.
More John Muir Quotes
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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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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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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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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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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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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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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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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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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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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