Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
JOHN MUIRWriting is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
More John Muir Quotes
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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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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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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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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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.
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
JOHN MUIR