The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
JOHN MUIRNo synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
More John Muir Quotes
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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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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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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