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 MUIRA part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
More John Muir Quotes
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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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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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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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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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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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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Take me into the mountains.
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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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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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