The sun shines not on us but in us.
JOHN MUIRYet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
More John Muir Quotes
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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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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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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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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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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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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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