But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
JOHN MUIRThere is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
More John Muir Quotes
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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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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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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