The mountains are calling and I must go.
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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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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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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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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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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