In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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 not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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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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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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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.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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