In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
JOHN MUIRI ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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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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I never saw a discontented tree.
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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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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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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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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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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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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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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.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
JOHN MUIR