Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
JOHN MUIRIt is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
More John Muir Quotes
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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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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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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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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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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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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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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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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