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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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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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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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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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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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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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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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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I never saw a discontented tree.
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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.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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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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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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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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