The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
JOHN MUIRThe power of imagination makes us infinite.
More John Muir Quotes
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Take me into the mountains.
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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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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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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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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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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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