One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
JOHN MUIRHidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
More John Muir Quotes
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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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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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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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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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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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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