When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
JOHN MUIRGo quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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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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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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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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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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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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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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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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The mountains are calling and I must go.
JOHN MUIR