When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
JOHN MUIRAs long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
More John Muir Quotes
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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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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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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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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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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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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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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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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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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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
JOHN MUIR