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.
JOHN MUIRThe clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
More John Muir Quotes
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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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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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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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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