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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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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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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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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