It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
JOHN MUIRAt 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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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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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Learn to live like the wild animals
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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Going to the woods is going home.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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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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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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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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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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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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