Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
JOHN MUIRIn every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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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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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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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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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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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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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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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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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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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
JOHN MUIR