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.
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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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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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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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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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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
JOHN MUIR