The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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 we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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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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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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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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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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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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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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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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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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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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