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.
JOHN MUIRCome to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
More John Muir Quotes
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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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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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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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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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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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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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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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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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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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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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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