I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
JOHN MUIRIn drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
More John Muir Quotes
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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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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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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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.
JOHN MUIR