This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
JOHN MUIRThere is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
More John Muir Quotes
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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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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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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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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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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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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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
JOHN MUIR