When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
JOHN MUIRThe sun shines not on us but in us.
More John Muir Quotes
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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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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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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