The sun shines not on us but in us.
JOHN MUIRClimb the mountains and get their good tidings.
More John Muir Quotes
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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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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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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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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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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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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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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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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