There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
JOHN MUIRAll 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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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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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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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