But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
JOHN MUIROne touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
More John Muir Quotes
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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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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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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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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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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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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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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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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.
JOHN MUIR