I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
JOHN MUIRThe sun shines not on us but in us.
More John Muir Quotes
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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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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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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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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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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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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Going to the mountains is going home.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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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.
JOHN MUIR