Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
JOHN MUIRBeauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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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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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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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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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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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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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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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 am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
JOHN MUIR