A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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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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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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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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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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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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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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