When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
JOHN MUIRNight is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
More John Muir Quotes
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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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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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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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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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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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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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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