When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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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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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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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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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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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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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
JOHN MUIR