Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
JOHN MUIRBut it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
More John Muir Quotes
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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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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 world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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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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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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