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 MUIRThe making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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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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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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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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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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