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.
JOHN MUIRSo also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
More John Muir Quotes
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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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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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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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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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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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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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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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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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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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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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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