On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
JOHN MUIRThe deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
More John Muir Quotes
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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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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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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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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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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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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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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I never saw a discontented tree.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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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!
JOHN MUIR