Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
JOHN MUIRThis is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
More John Muir Quotes
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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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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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
JOHN MUIR






