When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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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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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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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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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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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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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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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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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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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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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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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