One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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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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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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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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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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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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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
JOHN MUIR