A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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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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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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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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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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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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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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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Take me into the mountains.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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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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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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