We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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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, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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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 making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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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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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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Going to the mountains is going home.
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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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