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.
JOHN MUIRI only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
More John Muir Quotes
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Take me into the mountains.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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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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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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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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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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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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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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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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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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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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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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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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