Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
JOHN MUIRYet 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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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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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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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.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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