Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
JOHN MUIRThe galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
More John Muir Quotes
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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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 never saw a discontented tree.
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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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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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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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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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