The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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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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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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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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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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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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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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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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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