Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
JOHN MUIRBut we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
More John Muir Quotes
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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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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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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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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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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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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