In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
JOHN MUIRAs age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
More John Muir Quotes
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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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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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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