When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
JOHN MUIRHow glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
More John Muir Quotes
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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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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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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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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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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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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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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