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 MUIRNothing truly wild is unclean.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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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 one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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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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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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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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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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.
JOHN MUIR






