When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
JOHN MUIRLearn to live like the wild animals
More John Muir Quotes
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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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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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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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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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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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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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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