Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
JOHN MUIRLet children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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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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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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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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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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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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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Take me into the mountains.
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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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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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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.
JOHN MUIR