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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.

John Muir

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 MUIR

Defend Frost Love Lover Nature Rejoice Reservation Wild
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.
JOHN MUIR

Body Flow Past Peace River Sing Substance Vibrate
We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
JOHN MUIR

Enthusiasm Hiking Mountain Nature Trekking
In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
JOHN MUIR

Church Mountain Nature Religion Time Turn
But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
JOHN MUIR

Government Nature Travel Wild
As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
JOHN MUIR

Age Close Enjoyment Failure Nature Peace
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
JOHN MUIR

Finding Hitch Pick Try Universe
Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
JOHN MUIR

Nature Peace Travel World
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 MUIR

Blow Darkness Display Impressive Night Storm Waves
I never saw a discontented tree.
JOHN MUIR

Content Inspirational One Liner Tree
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 MUIR

Bless Conscious Divine Light Mountain Religion Touch Wait Worship
Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
JOHN MUIR

Alone Harm One Liner Peace Quiet Silence Travel
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
JOHN MUIR

Attachment Finding Inspirational Nature World
Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
JOHN MUIR

Glacier Grind Life One Liner Writing
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
JOHN MUIR

Greet Mountain One Liner Sun Trekking
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.
JOHN MUIR

Afternoon Course Life Man Mountain Sunset

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