The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
JOHN MUIRHow glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
More John Muir Quotes
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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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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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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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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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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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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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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