Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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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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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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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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Learn to live like the wild animals
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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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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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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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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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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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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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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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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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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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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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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.
JOHN MUIR