A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
JOHN MUIRGoing to the mountains is going home.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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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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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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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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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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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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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