Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
JOHN MUIRHidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
More John Muir Quotes
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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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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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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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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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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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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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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