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.
JOHN MUIRGoing to the mountains is going home.
More John Muir Quotes
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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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 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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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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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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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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