Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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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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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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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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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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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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but 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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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
JOHN MUIR