As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
JOHN MUIRIt 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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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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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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