Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
JOHN MUIR
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.
More John Muir Quotes
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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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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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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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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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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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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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
JOHN MUIR