Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
JOHN MUIRRaindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Going to the mountains is going home.
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Take me into the mountains.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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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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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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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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