But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
JOHN MUIRThe deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Going to the mountains is going home.
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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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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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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Take me into the mountains.
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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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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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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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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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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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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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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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