I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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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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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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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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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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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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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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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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Learn to live like the wild animals
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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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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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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