Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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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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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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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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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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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
JOHN MUIR






