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 MUIRIn drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
More John Muir Quotes
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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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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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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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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Learn to live like the wild animals
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
JOHN MUIR