Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
JOHN MUIRAs if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
More John Muir Quotes
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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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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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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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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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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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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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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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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