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.
JOHN MUIRWander 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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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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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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