Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
JOHN MUIRThe sun shines not on us but in us.
More John Muir Quotes
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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.
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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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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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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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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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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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