It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
JOHN MUIRGo where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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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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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 were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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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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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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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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I never saw a discontented tree.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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