The sun shines not on us but in us.
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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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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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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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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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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Wildness is a necessity.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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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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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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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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