There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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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.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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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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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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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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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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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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