In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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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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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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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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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 wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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