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 MUIRIn drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
More John Muir Quotes
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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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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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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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 power of imagination makes us infinite.
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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