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.
JOHN MUIRAnd into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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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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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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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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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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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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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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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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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