When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
JOHN MUIRBetween every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
More John Muir Quotes
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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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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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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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.
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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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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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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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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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