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 MUIRWhen we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
More John Muir Quotes
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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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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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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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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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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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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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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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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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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