On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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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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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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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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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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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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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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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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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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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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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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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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