It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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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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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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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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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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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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