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.
JOHN MUIRSpring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
More John Muir Quotes
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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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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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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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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Learn to live like the wild animals
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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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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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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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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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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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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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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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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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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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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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