Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
JOHN MUIRAnother glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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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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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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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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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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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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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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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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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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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
JOHN MUIR