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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.

John Muir

Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
JOHN MUIR

Beautiful Children Communication Death Life Nature Walk
I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
JOHN MUIR

Close Friendship Learning Live Measure Separate Soul
Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Blind One Liner Opposition Progress
There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
JOHN MUIR

Care Duty Love Mother Nature Recognize Wild
Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
JOHN MUIR

Enthusiasm Joy Nature One Liner Spring Work
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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Beginning Civil Finding Hiking Home Mountain People Tired Trekking Wild
The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
JOHN MUIR

Friendship Loneliness Sense Solitude
Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
JOHN MUIR

Alone Heart Hotel Nature Silence Travel Wild
One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Beautiful Bread Labor Life One Liner
What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
JOHN MUIR

Earth Fresh Leaf Psalm Sing Smell Storm Sweet Voice Wash
But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
JOHN MUIR

Blow Darkness Display Impressive Night Storm Waves
As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
JOHN MUIR

Age Close Enjoyment Failure Nature Peace
On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
JOHN MUIR

Death Ideas
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.
JOHN MUIR

Belief Darkness Heart Ignorance Inspirational People Tree
Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
JOHN MUIR

Build Feed Himself Individual Inspirational Lead Sight
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.
JOHN MUIR

Environment Forest Hear Nature People Preservation Speak Tree Vanish Wood

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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