I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
JOHN MUIRA part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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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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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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
JOHN MUIR