I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
JOHN MUIRNothing dollarable is safe.
More John Muir Quotes
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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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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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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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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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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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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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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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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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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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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
JOHN MUIR