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 MUIRI care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
More John Muir Quotes
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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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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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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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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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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Take me into the mountains.
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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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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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