One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
JOHN MUIRThe clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
More John Muir Quotes
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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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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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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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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Going to the mountains is going home.
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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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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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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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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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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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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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