This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
JOHN MUIRThere is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
More John Muir Quotes
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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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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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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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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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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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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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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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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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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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
JOHN MUIR