Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
JOHN MUIRI care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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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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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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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!
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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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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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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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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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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