It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
JOHN MUIRBeauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
More John Muir Quotes
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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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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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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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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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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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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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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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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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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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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 galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Take me into the mountains.
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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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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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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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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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