One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
JOHN MUIRSpring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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It 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.
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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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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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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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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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