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 MUIRHow glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
More John Muir Quotes
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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 every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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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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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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