The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
JOHN MUIRAs long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
More John Muir Quotes
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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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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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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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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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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