The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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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.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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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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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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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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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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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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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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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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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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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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