Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
JOHN MUIRGo where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
More John Muir Quotes
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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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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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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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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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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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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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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