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 MUIRSpring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
More John Muir Quotes
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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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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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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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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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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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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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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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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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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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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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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Going to the woods is going home.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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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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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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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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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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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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