Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
JOHN MUIRNothing truly wild is unclean.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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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.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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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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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
JOHN MUIR