Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
JOHN MUIRThe world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
More John Muir Quotes
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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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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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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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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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 soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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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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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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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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