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.
JOHN MUIRLearn to live like the wild animals
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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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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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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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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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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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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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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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.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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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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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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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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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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Going to the mountains is going home.
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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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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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