The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
JOHN MUIRThere is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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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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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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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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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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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
JOHN MUIR