To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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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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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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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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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I never saw a discontented tree.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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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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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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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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