Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
JOHN MUIRHow glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
More John Muir Quotes
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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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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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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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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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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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
JOHN MUIR