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.
JOHN MUIRThere is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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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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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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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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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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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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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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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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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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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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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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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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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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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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