Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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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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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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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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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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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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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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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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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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