In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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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.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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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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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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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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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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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.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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