Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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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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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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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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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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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