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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.

John Muir

Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
JOHN MUIR

Beautiful Forest Maintain Marvelous Nature Stress
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.
JOHN MUIR

Affair Bound Flood Master Men Tide
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.
JOHN MUIR

Belief Darkness Heart Ignorance Inspirational People Tree
Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
JOHN MUIR

Blossom Change Darkness Flower Frozen Rain Rainbow Sky Snow
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.
JOHN MUIR

Bless Conscious Divine Light Mountain Religion Touch Wait Worship
In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
JOHN MUIR

God Hope One Liner Wild World
In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
JOHN MUIR

Church Mountain Nature Religion Time Turn
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
JOHN MUIR

Greet Mountain One Liner Sun Trekking
The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
JOHN MUIR

Friendship Loneliness Sense Solitude
Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
JOHN MUIR

Delicious Lungs Nature Tongue
Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
JOHN MUIR

Blind One Liner Opposition Progress
On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
JOHN MUIR

Death Ideas
As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
JOHN MUIR

Age Close Enjoyment Failure Nature Peace
Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
JOHN MUIR

Alone Heart Hotel Nature Silence Travel Wild
I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
JOHN MUIR

Light Love Moon Run Stride Strong Sun
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
JOHN MUIR

Finding Hitch Pick Try Universe

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