When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
JOHN MUIRWho wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
More John Muir Quotes
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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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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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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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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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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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 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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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