There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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 sun shines not on us but in us.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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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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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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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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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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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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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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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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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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Take me into the mountains.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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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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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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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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