Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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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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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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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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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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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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