But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
JOHN MUIRFew places in this world are more dangerous than home.
More John Muir Quotes
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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 have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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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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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
JOHN MUIR