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 MUIRThe power of imagination makes us infinite.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Wildness is a necessity.
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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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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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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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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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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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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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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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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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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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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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