Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
JOHN MUIRI am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
More John Muir Quotes
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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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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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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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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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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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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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
JOHN MUIR